"The women's 100-meter final will punctuate Day 1 competition that will feature eight women's finals, the most for a single day at the Olympics. The men's 100-meter final will follow on Day 2. Scheduling the women's final on Day 1 will require the top athletes to run up to three, 100-meter races in one day as opposed to putting qualifying on a separate day as the semifinals and finals. Olympic organizers presented the idea to athlete commissions within LA28 and through World Athletics."
""The reason we're throwing out the women's 100 meters on the first day is because we want to come on these Games with a bang," Shana Ferguson, LA28's chief of sport and head of Games delivery, said on a conference call. "And likely that race will be among the most watched of all the races in the Games. We just want to start that Day 1 with a massive, massive showcase of the fastest females in the world.""
LA28 released a detailed daily competition schedule for the 2028 Summer Olympics covering 19 days and more than 11,000 athletes across 51 sports. The Games will be the largest in history and the first to include more female athletes than men. The women's 100-meter final is scheduled as the primetime marquee event at the Coliseum on July 15, 2028, with the men's 100-meter final on Day 2. Day 1 will feature eight women's finals. Scheduling choices considered athlete preferences, sun positioning for diving and heat concerns for equestrian events at Santa Anita, and will require some sprinters to run multiple 100-meter races in one day.
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