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Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players.
The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.
Flag football, for all of the hype surrounding it, will not appear in the 2024 Games in Paris. It was voted in October 2023 to appear in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
IFAF Flag Football World Championship is the international championship in flag football, organized by International Federation of American Football. [1] The men's and women's competitions are usually held in the same venue. The tournament starts with pool play to fill in the seeding and follows an elimination-style of play after that.
The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee (LA28) has proposed five new sports for inclusion in the 2028 Games: flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squash.
The 5-on-5 version of flag football got a tryout last summer at the World Games, an Olympic-modeled event for sports that aren't on the Olympic program.
The 2024 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championships was the 11th World Championships in women's flag football. The tournament took place in Lahti , Finland, August 27-30 of 2024. Venues
Flag football will make its debut at the 2028 Olympics. Could we see Joe Burrow on Team USA?