What are the 5 new sports for the 2028 Olympics?
New to the worlds of baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash? Don’t worry, Olympics. The Olympic Games LA28 will welcome five exciting additions to the programme: baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse, and squash. Baseball and softball will re-appear at LA 2028, but breakdancing, which earned plenty of ridicule at the Paris Olympics, won’t. The only sports that have featured in all editions, from 1896 to 2024, are gymnastics, athletics, cycling, fencing and swimming.The 2028 Games will feature the debut of flag football and squash as optional sports, joined by the return of baseball/softball, cricket (for the first time since 1900) and lacrosse (for the first time since 1948). Breaking, which debuted at the 2024 Olympic Games, will not return.The five optional sports will include the Olympic debuts of flag football (a non-contact variant of gridiron football) and squash, the return of baseball/softball for the first time since 2020, the return of cricket for the first time since 1900, and lacrosse for the first time since 1908.