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Los Angeles Finalizes Venue Plan for 2028 Paralympic Games

Organizers assigned 23 sports to venues across Los Angeles plus Long Beach, minimizing travel by locating all sites within 35 miles of a centralized UCLA village that boosts accessibility.

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Reynold Hoover, Chief Executive Officer of LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks in front of the Los Angeles Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File photo
Paralympic fencing is demonstrated during a flag installation ceremony for the Olympic and Paralympic flags on Sept. 12, 2024, at City Hall in Los Angeles. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Overview

  • LA Memorial Coliseum will host para athletics and the Paralympic closing ceremony under the updated LA28 plan.
  • Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium will stage the opening ceremony before wheelchair basketball moves to Crypto.com Arena.
  • The Los Angeles Convention Center downtown will host boccia, para judo, para taekwondo, para table tennis and wheelchair fencing in a festival-style hub.
  • The Long Beach waterfront is set to accommodate seven events, including para swimming, blind football and the Paralympic debut of para climbing.
  • All competition sites lie within a 35-mile radius of the unified UCLA Paralympic Village, ensuring athletes are housed together for the first time since Rio 2016.