After it’s star flip in Paris final 12 months, Rugby Sevens has been formally confirmed for Carson Stadium on the LA28 Olympic Video games.
The venue is dwelling to Main League Soccer workforce LA Galaxy and can host each the boys’s and ladies’s competitions in LA28. The pitch has hosted a number of world soccer stars throughout their time with LA Galaxy, together with David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane, Zlatan Ibrahimovi?, Steven Gerrard and Chicharito.
Positioned in Carson, California, the 27,000-capacity stadium is the second-largest soccer-specific venue in the US.
It beforehand staged the 2003 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup closing and has since hosted a spread of worldwide sporting fixtures, live shows and particular occasions.
The announcement follows the Worldwide Olympic Committee Government Board’s latest approval of LA28’s up to date venue masterplan. The finalised model confirms places for dozens of Olympic sports activities and incorporates a mixture of legacy venues and regional landmarks.
Rugby Sevens was one of many breakout occasions of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Greater than 500,000 tickets had been bought throughout the week, making it one of many best-selling sports activities of the Video games.
A single-day crowd of 69,000 crammed Stade de France in the course of the event, setting a brand new attendance report for the format. Broadcast figures additionally indicated robust world curiosity within the shortened code which ulimately noticed Antoine Dupont and France win gold on dwelling soil.
Paris was additionally a break-out event for Ilona Maher, who’s social media following and world fame surged on the again of her on and off-field exploits on the event.
LA28 organisers say the Video games will “rejoice the Southern California Area, with iconic backdrops from film units to the Pacific shoreline.”
Rugby Sevens will seem at its fourth consecutive Olympic Video games in 2028, having debuted in Rio in 2016.
