Women’s athletes 2028 Los Angeles summer Games will be in the first Olympics in an Olympics, thanks to a major victory for women’s football.
The Olympic women’s football tournament will be larger than the men’s version for the first time in 2028, the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday with 16 teams for women and now with only 12 teams for men – floated gender imbalance in the Paris Olympics, with 16 men’s teams and 12 in women’s tournaments.
The IOC said that the IOC Executive Board’s decision helped push the main quota of athletes for LA to 50.7% women and 49.3% men – 5,333 for women and 5,167 for men.
The gaps are slightly closed when athletes for sports are being added to the LA program, which includes 322 female and 376 male contestants. Those games include cricket, flag football and lacros.
Historical progress for women athletes was made at an online board meeting at an online board meeting on Wednesday, which was the first time as the Presidential election since the previous month’s victory by Kirsty Covantry. In June, she will formally replace her mentor Thomas Bakh and will become the first female leader of IOC in her 131 -year history.
Two more women teams were added to the water polo so that the tournament in Los Angeles is equal to the men’s incident with every 12 countries.
The IOC’s headline decision since the introduction of women’s football with only eight teams at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was removing an inequality – half as a men’s tournament.
The board confirmed a proposal by FIFA President Gianni Infantino last Thursday when he spoke at the annual meeting of the European football body UEFA.
The case was made more compelling for change as the women’s football tournament is a top level title in which national teams have to send their best players.
The men’s tournament, however, attracts the best players due to selection conflicts with clubs around the world and is mostly for players of 23 or less. The French men’s team that used to take silver in Paris last year was unable to choose Kylian mbappa Who had only signed for Real Madrid.
Last year, there were 16 male football teams at every summer Games since Moscow in 1980 through Paris last year.
The women’s lineup rose to 10 teams at the 2004 Athens Olympics, then 12 to four years later in Beijing.
FIFA and Infantino repeatedly called for equality with the 16-Team Women’s Tournament, which would have added about 70 additional players, plus team officials to carry forward the border on the athlete housing quota for Olympic organizers.
The found solution was to favor the women’s version over men and proceeded the IOC’s policy of gender equality in the Olympics that had first reached Paris.
