Peaty aims for LA 2028 after 50m events added

Adam Peaty won silver in the 100m breaststroke at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Adam Peaty says he will aim to compete in a fourth Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028 after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed 50m sprint swimming events would be included.

The 30-year-old had previously not committed to competing in Los Angeles, but had said he will "100%" compete if the 50m breaststroke event was added to the schedule.

He is the current world record holder in the event with a time of 25.95 seconds set at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest.

After the announcement by the IOC, Peaty posted on Instagram, saying: "50m sprint events have just been added to @la28games which confirms my attempt to be at my fourth Olympic Games.

"This is the best result for our incredible sport and will allow more people to be part of it and stay in it much longer. Thank you @world_aquatics for this amazing decision.

"I've got a good feeling about these next three years."

The six-time Olympic medallist has not been included in a group of 57 elite British swimmers that will be supported by Aquatics GB throughout 2025.

After his silver medal at the Paris Olympics last summer Peaty said he would take a two-year break from the sport but would continue training.

He remains involved with the British swimming programme but is on an adjusted training schedule.

The IOC confirmed 50m backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke would be part of the schedule.

The Aquatics GB Swimming Championships will be live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app between the 15-20 April, with gold medallists at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games including Duncan Scott, Alice Tai, Matt Richards and Maisie Summers-Newton in action.

Women's events expanded in football, boxing and water polo

In another change announced by the IOC, the women's football event will grow to 16 teams for LA 2028, with the men's event reducing from 16 to 12.

It will be the first time the women's event has had more countries competing than the men's.

An additional women's weight category in boxing was also confirmed, meaning there will be gender parity in the event.

Water polo will see two additional women's teams in another effort to bring gender equality, in terms of athlete quota and numbers of teams.

There will also be an expanded mixed events schedule with archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), golf, gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint and table tennis all seeing mixed team events added.

Rowing will have three events making their Olympic debut, with the women's solo (CW1x) and men's solo (CM1x) events and the mixed double sculls (CX2x) being introduced in a coastal beach sprint.

The boulder and lead events will be contested as separate medal events in sport climbing, while the 3x3 basketball events will increase from eight teams to 12.

The IOC said "gender equality was a key consideration" when deciding the schedule. In the initial sports programme the number of female athletes is 5,333 compared to 5,167 male athletes.

The additional sports add 322 female athletes and 376 male athletes.

Out of 351 events, there are 161 women's events, 165 men's events and 25 mixed events.

There are an extra 698 athlete places allocated for the five sports proposed by the LA28 Organising Committee (baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash).