The Paris Games are over, the Olympic flame that hung suspended in a cauldron above the Jardins de Tuileries extinguished, and the Olympic flag handed over to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games.
Already, organizers have offered a glimpse of the spirit of a Games set in Tinseltown, sprinkling the handover with some Hollywood stardust as Tom Cruise leapt from the roof of the Stade de France in the closing ceremony to take the Olympic flag out of the stadium on the back of a motorbike, while Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chili Peppers also performed.Now only a mere 1,432 days away, the L.A. Olympics begins on July 14, 2028 with its opening ceremony and will run until July 30.
Organizers are planning to hold the swimming events in a temporary pool at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, normally used to host NFL games. With such a big capacity, the stadium will seat 38,000 spectators even with a 50-meter pool inside it, making it the biggest-ever Olympic swimming venue. “We’ve been building out our system, but we’re also going to need a lot of buses, thousands of buses from neighboring cities and states to help us deliver that.”
Cricket was played at the Paris Olympics in 1900, while lacrosse featured at St. Louis 1904 and London 1908, but both have fallen out of the Olympic program since then. Baseball and softball have floated in and out of the Olympics, most recently featuring in Tokyo 202 And the modern pentathlon – a rather odd event in which athletes traditionally compete in fencing, showjumping, a 200-meter freestyle swim and a laser run that combines running and shooting – will take on a new complexion in LA.
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