The athletes will be for the first time at the Olympics for the first time at the Los Angeles 2028 summer games thanks to the big victory for women’s football.
The Olympic Women’s Football Tournament will be for the first time in 2028 for the first time more than the release of men, the International Olympic Committee decided on Wednesday, with 16 teams for women and now only 12 for men – overturning the gender imbalance at the Paris Olympics, which had 16 male teams and 12 in the female tournament.
This decision of the IOC Executive Council helped shift the basic quota of athletes for LA to 50.7% of women and 49.3% of men – 5 333 for women and 5 167 for men, MOV said.
The gap is slightly closed when athletes for sports, especially in the LA program – including 322 women and 376 male competitors. These sports include cricket, flagship and lacrosse.
Progress to commemorate the female athlete was first made at an online board meeting that was first co -chairman in Lausanne since her victory Last month. In June he will formally replace his mentor Thomas Bach and become the first female leader IOC in his 131 -year history.
Two other female teams were added to the water pole, so the Los Angeles tournament will be straight with a male event with 12 countries.
The main decision of the IOC was to remedy the inequality because female football debuted at the 1996 Olympic Games with only eight teams – half as much as the male tournament.
The Council confirmed the proposal unveiled last Thursday by FIFA President Gianni Infantino when he spoke at the annual meeting of the European football body of UEFA.
The case was more convincing because the female football tournament is a top title where national teams broadcast their best players.
However, the men’s tournament rarely attracts the best players because of selection conflicts with clubs around the world and is mostly for players aged 23 or less. The France Men’s team that took silver last year in Paris was unable to choose Kylian mbappé signed Real Madrid.
Since Moscow in 1980 through Paris last year, there were 16 male football teams for every summer game.
The line -up of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 increased to 10 teams, then to 12 years later in Beijing.
FIFA and Infantino have repeatedly demanded equality with a 16-team female tournament that would add about 70 other players and team officials to move quotas limits for athletes for the Olympic Games organizers.
The found solution was to prefer the release of women to men and further manage the IOC gender parity policy at the Olympics, which was first reached in Paris.
