Basketball on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will begin two days earlier than the opening ceremony for these Video games, organisers confirmed Wednesday.
FIBA, the game’s international governing physique, stated that it has reviewed a revised basketball schedule for Los Angeles and that video games will start on July 12, 2028 — forward of the July 14 opening ceremony.
It’s unclear if the boys’s event, the ladies’s event or each will begin earlier than the official opening. A preliminary schedule launched final month calls for 3 basketball video games on July 12 and three extra on July 13.
“This adjustment permits the quarterfinals to be performed over two days and also will make sure that no sport will begin sooner than (midday), enhancing the general expertise for gamers, groups, followers and broadcasters,” FIBA stated in a information launch.
Bronze-medal video games will likely be performed on July 28 and 29, and gold-medal video games will happen on July 29 and 30. July 30 is the ultimate day of the Video games.
A number of different sports activities are additionally scheduled to start out earlier than the opening ceremony, together with subject hockey, rugby sevens, water polo, handball, cricket and soccer.
The canoe slalom competitors in Oklahoma Metropolis is anticipated to start out within the morning of July 14, hours earlier than the opening ceremony later that day, about 1,200 miles (1,931 km) away.
America is the defending males’s and girls’s Olympic basketball champion. The ladies have received eight consecutive golds, whereas the boys have received 5 straight.
Printed on Aug 21, 2025