{"id":30482,"date":"2025-05-31T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/la-2028-patrick-mahomes-rules-out-playing-in-flag-footballs-olympic-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:51:12","slug":"la-2028-patrick-mahomes-rules-out-playing-in-flag-footballs-olympic-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/la-2028-patrick-mahomes-rules-out-playing-in-flag-footballs-olympic-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"LA 2028: Patrick Mahomes rules out playing in flag football&#8217;s Olympic debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has ruled out playing flag football at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NFL team owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cd7ggpvd238o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">agreed last week to allow NFL players to participate<\/a> in flag football&#8217;s Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mahomes, 29, had previously said he &#8220;definitely wants to&#8221; play but this week the NFL&#8217;s two-time Most Valuable Player said he will leave representing the United States to &#8220;the younger guys&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-time Super Bowl winner would turn 33 shortly after the LA Games take place in July 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking during the Chiefs&#8217; off-season organised team activities (OTAs), Mahomes said: &#8220;I&#8217;ll probably leave that to the younger guys. I&#8217;ll be a little older by the time that comes around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s awesome. Honestly, just to be able to showcase the NFL to the whole world through flag football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cgq3ez7j80eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has ruled out playing flag football at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. NFL team owners agreed last week to allow NFL players to participate in flag football&#8217;s Olympic debut. Mahomes, 29, had previously said he &#8220;definitely wants to&#8221; play but this week the NFL&#8217;s two-time Most Valuable Player said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30484,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30482\/revisions\/30484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}