Orlando will host international 2028 Olympic qualifying competitions in the brand new Olympic sport of flag soccer, plus seaside volleyball, climbing and park skateboarding.
Orlando is one in all 4 cities internet hosting Olympic Q-Series competitions (from June 8-11, 2028), after Tokyo (May 4-7), Shanghai (May 11-14) and Montreal (June 1-4).
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Tokyo could have 3×3 basketball, BMX freestyle, climbing and park and road skateboarding.
Shanghai has 3×3 basketball, seaside volleyball, BMX freestyle and climbing.
Montreal has flag soccer, seaside volleyball, BMX freestyle and park skateboarding.
The final cease in Orlando will happen one month earlier than the beginning of the LA Games. It was beforehand introduced that Camping World Stadium, previously often known as the Citrus Bowl, will host competitors.
The U.S. won’t take part in the Orlando flag soccer qualifier as a result of it already has assured Olympic spots in the boys’s and girls’s tournaments because the host nation.
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The Q-Series will decide the final three males’s groups and girls’s groups in the Olympic flag soccer area of six groups every. The U.S., plus the highest two groups outdoors the U.S. from this August’s World Championships can even qualify.
Similarly in seaside volleyball, the Q-Series will decide the final three males’s groups and three girls’s groups to full the 2028 Olympic fields.
In 2024, the Olympic qualifying collection debuted with two stops — in Shanghai and Budapest — and 4 sports — BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing.
Orlando hosted the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, plus preliminary soccer matches for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics on the Citrus Bowl.
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