VLADIVOSTOK, September 4. /TASS/. The Russian national Olympic team is preparing under the assumption that it will participate in full at the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in the United States, Russia’s top sports official Mikhail Degtyarev said on Thursday.
"We are preparing for full-fledged participation in the 2028 Olympic Games," Degtyarev, the Russian Sports Minister and the president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), said speaking at the ‘Sports Diplomacy: New Challenges and Opportunities’ session held within the framework of the 2025 Eastern Economic Forum.
"We [Russia] will hold the 2nd Summer Spartakiad featuring our strongest athletes. There will be 9,000 of them there," he continued. "This is a domestic competition that will single out the best of the best."
"In other words, we will start selecting candidates for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles," he added.
The 2028 Summer IOC Summer Olympic Games are slated to be hosted by the US city of Los Angeles between July 14 and 30. The previous edition of the IOC Summer Olympics was hosted by the French capital of Paris in 2024 between July 26 and August 11. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed a team of 15 Russian athletes to participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics as neutrals.
