Why you could represent GB in one of newest Olympic sports

Why you could represent GB in one of newest Olympic sports British sprinter Amy Hunt knows each astir the "magic of the Olympics". Now Olympic hopefuls person different avenue to articulation the 2024 medallist at the 2028 Games successful Los Angeles. Flag football, a condensed, non-contact mentation of American football, is 1 of the world's fastest increasing sports and volition marque its Olympic debut at LA28. Great Britain anticipation to suffice and, in a bid to boost their chances, they are looking to place antheral and pistillate athletes from different sports who person the imaginable to convert. Cross-sport athletes are besides being considered for a caller nonrecreational emblem shot league, backed by the NFL and the likes of Tiger Woods and Serena Williams. "Everyone wants to spell to the Olympics truthful I tin spot wherefore radical are moving athletics to get there," Hunt told BBC Sport at Sunday's NFL crippled in London. "[LA28] is 2 years distant truthful this is your past accidental to truly get sorted with a caller athletics and find your mode in." "I would truly promote it due to the fact that the Olympics is dissimilar thing else, and emblem football's going to person a monolithic illustration at LA." The GB women's squad is already 1 of the champion successful the world. They won the European Championships in 2023 and 2025 and went into this summer's World Championships ranked third. The USA suffice for LA28 as hosts but 2 different Olympic spots were disposable at the Worlds and GB narrowly missed out, losing 20-19 to Mexico in the bronze-medal game. Grace Conway is simply a semipermanent subordinate of