Los Angeles Is The Next Big Destination For The 2028 Olympics

Paris 2024 is over — and now, its Los Angeles turn to host the world at the Olympics in 2028.

The torch promptly got to the City chairman of Los Angeles Karen Bass when she received the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony on Sunday August 11, before handing it over to a key representative of LA’s local business — Tom Cruise, who in a pre-recorded journey by means of cruiser, plane and parachute started off the commencement to 2028.

The city will be the third in the world to host the games three times as it adds to the celebrated long stretches of 1932 and 1984.

When Paris was chosen for 2024, Los Angeles received the 2028 games as a consolation prize. Back in 1932, LA hosted its first Olympics. The city was the main bidder for the games, but was suddenly defaced as a result of the Economic crisis of the early 20s and the shortfall of a few countries.

Athletes like American Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who won gold medals in the new women’s javelin and hurdles events, contributed to the memorable sporting moments.

Financially and culturally, the games were very successful, and that gave 1984 a reputation as the “best” Olympics” which made seemingly every major world city want their own.

With Eastern Alliance nations boycotting, the U.S. quickly took over. Among the athletes who rose to prominence are Mary Lou Retton and Carl Lewis. Michael Jordan additionally led the men’s b-ball team to win gold at the time.

Meanwhile, Karen Bass, who got back to LA on Monday after the Paris Olympics closing ceremony, expressed that, one of the biggest takeaways was the way Paris organizers made the “Olympics for everyone, whether you participated in the games or not.”

She gave instances of watch parties held in around urban communities and breakdancing classes before the competition.

When Bass and the president of the city council, Paul Krekorian, brought the Olympic flag to Los Angeles, they said that they were “going to make this the only city in the world who have ever had three financially successful Olympic Games.”

LA intends to open with a traditional, stadium-based approach at SoFi Stadium in neighboring Inglewood that also incorporates the century-old Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles itself.

Home to two NFL teams, SoFi has hosted a Super Bowl and several Taylor Swift concerts since opening in 2020. It will become what organizers say is the largest Olympic swimming venue ever. Its opening ceremony role means swimming will come after track and field for the first time since 1972.

Intuit Dome, the soon-to-open Inglewood home of the NBA’s Clippers, would be the games’ newest major venue and is the planned home for Olympic basketball. The Lakers’ downtown Crypto.com Arena will host gymnastics, among many others.

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Bass said she plans to emulate the tactics of Tom Bradley, the mayor in 1984, whose traffic mitigations had some saying it was better than at non-Olympic times. They include asking local businesses to stagger workforce hours to reduce the number of cars on the road and allow work from home during the 17-day games.

As a matter of fact, prior to the 2028 Olympics, Los Angeles will first host a FIFA World Cup event, followed by the U.S. Women’s Open and another Super Bowl in 2027.

The city’s hotel industry has continued to see growth, adding 9,000 new hotel rooms in the past four years with more to come over the next four.

The $6.9 billion budget for LA28 is expected to be covered by ticket sales, sponsorships, payments from the International Olympic Committee, and other forms of revenue. In order to reach its target of $2.5 billion in domestic corporate sponsorships, the committee has raised just over $1 billion.