Four years is a long time to keep track of all 36 sports that will be contested at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
That’s why we’re keeping you up to speed with five stories you missed this March – one for each of the Olympic Rings. And no, they’re not colour-coded!
GB Hockey Names Elite Development Programme Squads
Great Britain Hockey has recently announced its two Elite Development Programme (EDP) squads for the Men’s and Women’s teams.
A total of 34 men have been selected, with the squad doubling as an England Under-21 programme.
Meanwhile, the Women’s EDP aims to “help players make the transition to Senior GB international level in the future”. The squad will train together before playing a match series in the USA at the end of the year.
Established in 2017, the EDP programme aims to identify talented future senior internationals and help them maximise their potential, supporting the development of the “skills, physicality and character” required to become medal-winning Olympians.
Both GB teams qualified for the 2024 Olympics, with both eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Olympic Gymnastic Medallists Battle at British Championships
The 2026 British Gymnastics Championships (19–22 March) marked the opening of the LA28 cycle for British gymnasts, and it was headlined by the return of Max Whitlock, the most decorated gymnast in British history, as he targets a fifth Olympic Games at LA 2028.
Joe Fraser was dominant, claiming the British all-around title alongside gold on the parallel bars and high bar.
The competition also featured a heavyweight duel between 2024 Olympic medallists Jake Jarman and Harry Hepworth. The pair went head-to-head on the floor, with Jarma pipping Hepworth to the title in the same event he won his Bronze medal.
Hepworth had won bronze in the vault at the Paris Olympics, but in Liverpool it was Sol Scott who surged to the title, leaving Jarman with silver and Hepworth with another bronze.
Meanwhile, in the women’s all-around, Ruby Evans delivered a landmark performance, becoming the first Welsh athlete to win the British title in over 60 years.
You can rewatch the British Championships on the BBC iPlayer
Two-Time Olympic Medallist Sky Brown Becomes World Champion
Four athletes have represented Great Britain at the Olympics in Skateboarding, but only Sky Brown has ever medalled, winning a Bronze medal in the last two Games.
She’s now added a second Women’s Park World title, after defeating Mizuho Hasegawa and Minna Stess in the final in São Paulo, Brazil.
Brown was the youngest British Olympian to ever win a medal in Tokyo, at the age of 13 years and 28 days, and she now adds to her impressive resume, which includes two X Games gold medals to go with her world titles, and Olympic medals.
Alys Barton Breaks New Ground in World Surf League
Since its introduction in 2020, Great Britain has never sent a surfer to the Olympics. The primary mode of qualification is through the World Surf League, the highest tier of professional surfing, and a British surfer has never competed in it.
However, they’re one step closer thanks to Alys Barton, who has become the first British athlete to qualify outright for the WSL Challenger Series, the second tier of competition.
Barton, 21, finished fifth in the 2025/26 WSL Europe Qualifying Series, punching her ticket to the Challenger Series. The Series takes place over five events in 2026/27, including Huntington Beach, California, less than 30 miles from where the Olympic surfing will take place in 2028.
Great Britain Requalifies for World Baseball Classic
While Olympic qualification wasn’t possible for Great Britain at the World Baseball Classic, the team’s priority and that of Performance Director Gary Anderson was requalification.
And the Great Britain baseball team achieved that, defeating Brazil 8-1 in their final game of the tournament.
The next aim for the team is the WBSC Premier12 Qualification tournament in Zhongshan, China, from November 26 to 29, 2026.