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About LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony of the LA 2028 Summer Paralympic Games launches the 17th edition of the Summer Paralympics on Friday, August 15, 2028, roughly two weeks after the close of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. It marks the third time the Summer Paralympics have been held in the United States, following Atlanta 1996.
Under LA28's uniquely dispersed Games plan, the Paralympic Opening Ceremony is expected to be staged at a major Southern California venue. The ceremony will feature the Parade of Nations, the lighting of the Paralympic cauldron, and the raising of the Paralympic flag bearing the three Agitos symbol.
Roughly 4,400 athletes from more than 160 national Paralympic committees are expected to compete across 22 sports. LA 2028 will also mark a continued push toward gender parity and inclusion.
Overview
Why this sports page exists
The LA28 Paralympic Games open on August 15, 2028, following the Olympic Games in the same city. Around 4,400 Para athletes from over 160 countries will compete across 22 sports at venues throughout Los Angeles, including SoFi Stadium and the LA Memorial Coliseum.
Specificity
What makes this countdown specific
Event
LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony
Venue / market
Los Angeles, California, USA · Los Angeles · United States
Date posture
August 15, 2028 · Date confirmed · Confirmed
Source trail
International Paralympic Committee · la28.org
Content family
sports · Paralympics
Topic signals
paralympics, la28, summer paralympics, opening ceremony, 2028
Sport
Multi-sport (Summer Paralympics)
Type
Opening ceremony
Precision
Confirmed date
LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony is kept distinct from neighboring sports countdowns by its concrete source trail (International Paralympic Committee at la28.org), its date confirmed date signal, and its confirmed confidence label.
The location context for this listing is Los Angeles, California, USA, United States. That matters because two pages can share a broad paralympics label while still serving different reader tasks: travel timing, ticket timing, broadcast coverage, city logistics, or release-window monitoring.
Current event facts on file: sport: Multi-sport (Summer Paralympics); type: Opening ceremony; precision: Confirmed date. These details are included in the main article so the timer has venue, source, and schedule context.
Topic signals used for related-page matching: paralympics, la28, summer paralympics, opening ceremony, 2028. Schema posture: Specific Event date emitted.
Evidence pack
Source, schema, and originality audit
Retention class
Confirmed-source major countdown
Evidence score
11/12 source/detail signals
- Evidence score11/12 signals present
- source name; source URL; source host; public date label; machine date value; location context; 3 fact rows
- Source and schemaCurated confirmed date
- Specific Event date emitted Source trail: International Paralympic Committee at la28.org.
- Date precisionDate confirmed / Confirmed
- The page can carry a precise Event startDate because the source signal is specific enough.
- Entity grounding3 facts, 5 tags
- Location context: Los Angeles, California, USA, Los Angeles, United States.
- Editorial depth3 paragraphs, 4 highlights
- A curated why-it-matters note is present, plus visible source and freshness boundaries.
- Generation controlCurated event row
- This row is carried by the event catalog directly rather than a franchise template expansion.
Why it matters
The ceremony opens the first Paralympic Games in the United States in more than three decades and the first ever held in Los Angeles.
The details
Key highlights
- Venue
- Greater Los Angeles stadium venue, TBC by LA28
- Format
- Opening ceremony with Parade of Nations and cauldron lighting
- Headliner
- Organized by the International Paralympic Committee and LA28
- Audience
- Global broadcast viewers and live spectators
Reading the timer
How to use this sports countdown
LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony sits inside the sports calendar as a paralympics date that readers may revisit as the public details firm up. This page keeps the tracked date, source quality, location context, and release confidence in one place so the countdown is useful without implying more certainty than the source provides.
Right now the key public signal is August 15, 2028, with confirmed status and date confirmed precision. That distinction matters. A confirmed datetime is very different from a month-level or date-only signal, and people planning watch parties, travel, ticketing, launch coverage, or newsroom publishing need that nuance instead of a misleadingly precise timer.
We are tracking LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony from International Paralympic Committee plus the official event source. For this page, that means the safest way to read the countdown is as a reference layer: use the timer for awareness, then use the source, precision, location, and event facts together before you commit to travel, viewing plans, promotional scheduling, or time-sensitive announcements.
The most practical reading of this countdown is: LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony is being watched for Los Angeles, California, USA, United States, and the current page focus is the main paralympics milestone rather than every surrounding rumor or speculative date. Sport: Multi-sport (Summer Paralympics). Type: Opening ceremony.
LA 2028 Summer Paralympics Opening Ceremony is a sports countdown, so the page has to orient around match-stage context, venue expectations, and tournament timing rather than entertainment-release language. Sports searchers usually care about the exact round, final, opener, host city, and likely planning window for kickoff coverage or travel. That is especially useful when several paralympics, la28, summer paralympics, opening ceremony pages exist in the same competition and need to stay distinct.