Flag football is set to make its Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028, and the Australian teams have already started their campaign to get there.
Take the highlights reel from American football and put it in a blender with netball, AFL and Oztag, and you get flag football, a non-contact game that’s one of six new sports being added to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“It’s a cross between netball and AFL, but based on American football rules, and it’s probably a little bit of Oztag … it’s of all those 360 pressure sports that we grow up playing … anyone that’s played those sports picks the sport up really well because it’s simple.” Sutton would compare gridiron to flag as NRL to Oztag. “So it’s a small field, smaller numbers and instead of tackling you have flags that you need to pull off,” she said.
“Obviously with the Olympic Games being announced in 2028 in LA, and because flag is one of the debut sports, hopefully in the next few years we’ll get more funding,” Pritchard said.
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