Here's what Angelenos can expect as Los Angeles prepares to host the Olympics in 2028.
Monday after the Paris closing ceremony, it was the clearest sign yet that in four years it will be the City of Angels' turn to host the Summer Games.Thirty-six sports will be featured - the most ever - and the event will welcome approximately 10,500 Olympians, 6,000 Paralympians and thousands of visitors from around the world.
"They're not going to want people internationally to actually see homelessness in Los Angeles. There is no chance, no chance at all that the modernization of LAX would be done by 2028 if it weren't for the Olympics. So if we can do it for LAX, we can certainly do it for homelessness.""I don't know what the numbers are in Paris, but you can't hide 70,000 people," Bass said.
"L.A. is truly unique in that way. When you have to privately fund, and the expectation is to at worst break even at a Games, you can't go build venues for a sport for two weeks. It's illogical. It feels weird to move an event to Oklahoma City, I think for some people, but when you realize it's a two-hour plane flight just like Marseille, you have to think outside the box. You take an event like canoe kayak to Oklahoma City or softball, those are sports people love there.
Skateboarding, BMX freestyle and BMX racing events will be held in the Sepulveda Basin. Equestrian will take place in Temecula. Cycling and tennis will be in Carson, to name a few. "However, a lot of those cost overruns are attributable to facility construction, which in a no-build Olympics you're not going to have," Beissel said. "I'm somewhat optimistic you're not going to have the level of cost overruns we've seen previously. It is, at least in my opinion, a step in the right direction toward a more sustainable and socially conscious hosting of the Games.
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