The 2026 Winter Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy, may be just weeks away, but it’s already time to sign up for a chance buy tickets for the next Olympics after that, the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Wednesday marked the start of online registration that lasts through March 18 for the “LA28 Ticket Draw” for time slots to purchase Olympic tickets during the first drop, beginning April 9. Tickets for the Paralympics that follows for athletes with disabilities won’t go on sale until 2027.
Those whose names are randomly drawn will be notified by email between March 31 and April 7 if they’ve been assigned a time slot. Participants will continue to be entered into all subsequent ticket draws until reaching a maximum of 12 tickets.
Locals living in eligible ZIP codes, including in Oklahoma City, where the 2028 Olympic canoe slalom and softball events are being held, may be eligible to enter an even earlier draw with an April 2-6 purchase window.
There are expected to be some 14 million tickets available to LA’s third Olympics, set to be held July 14–30, 2028. But specific prices have yet to be disclosed, although organizers have said about a third will cost less than $100 and some as little as $28.
Team USA’s most decorated winter Olympian, short track speedskater Apolo Ono, was among more than 300 Olympic and Paralympic athletes gathered Tuesday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to promote the ticket registration launch.
Ono, who made his Olympic debut at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, where he won two of his eight medals, said to The Associated Press the event, featuring athletes from 28 different Games as far back as 1960, was like a reunion.
“I walked in and I literally saw like 50 of my friends that I’d grown up in the Olympic training center with for many years,” Ono told the AP. “I haven’t seen some of these people for 10 years or more.”