Tom Cruise at "Stade de France", and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre from one of the sunny beaches, in just a few minutes of the closing of the Olympic Games in Paris, announced what kind of show Los Angeles is preparing in four years.
Although 2028 is still a long way off, some things about the 34th Olympic Games are already known - some promise a spectacle, while there are still concerns about traffic and crowds.
- I am sure that the Games in Los Angeles will delight the world and will be dotted with Hollywood glamour, one of the cheerleaders who arrived in Paris from LA told the BBC.
Athletics in the place where Karl Luis wrote history, ...
The "City of Angels" will host the Olympic Games for the third time in history (after 1932 and 1984), and it is already known that everything will start on the 14th and end on the 30th of July 2028.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Games will be held at the super-modern "SoFi Stadium" and at the legendary "LA Memorial Coliseum", so the old stadium will become the first in history to host three editions of the Olympic Games.
Of course, the Colosseum will also host athletic competitions, just as it was the case in 1932 and 1984. For those who remember the Games held 40 years ago, that famous building will always be associated with the great Carl Lewis and his four gold medals.
The sports facilities are something that California is especially proud of, as the hosts claim that it will not be necessary to build any new arenas.
The famous "Rose Bowl" in Pasadena, the stadium where they were crowned in the 1994 World Cup final Romario, baby and other Brazilians, will once again be a football center.
The legendary home of the LA Lakers "Staples Center" (today Crypto.com Arena) will not be the center of basketball but of gymnastics, while the "dream team" will defend the gold from Paris in the new arena of the LA Clippers - "Intuit Home".
A special attraction will be the "SoFi" stadium - the arena where the NFL club LA Rams performs and which will host the World Cup in football in 2026. During the Games, it will turn into an aquatic center for swimming competitions, probably also the finals in water polo.
Paris, next to the Eiffel Tower, had attractive courts for beach volleyball, and LA, next to its beautiful beaches, will not have to improvise.
Just like 40 years ago, the famous Californian university UCLA and its dormitory will be the Olympic village, while USC (University of Southern California) will be the media center.
LA 2028 will in some way carry the charm of the Games from the eighties of the last century.
Games without cars
The biggest problem of Los Angeles has been huge traffic jams for years, so she is the mayor Karen Bass promised "Games without cars".
In order to avoid chaos in Los Angeles, the plan is that the only way visitors could get to the sports facilities would be public transportation.
In order to succeed in this, the leaders of Los Angeles plan to borrow about 3.000 buses from other American cities.
"Everything will be a big challenge for the organizers after plans for a major upgrade of the railway network failed", writes "Los Angeles Times".
And games without boxing?
Like every Games, the next one in Los Angeles will have news when it comes to sports, so the big question is whether the best boxers and female boxers will appear in the capital of California in four years.
The reason is the conflict between the International Olympic Committee and the International Boxing Association (IBA), so the IOC took over the supervision of boxers last year. IBA's operations, corruption and finances were problematic...
Boxing competitions at the Games have been organized since 1904, and only three times were they not part of the OI - 1896, 1900, 1912.
The news is that there will be no breakdancing, which was not famous in Paris, and the new sports are cricket, flag football (a type of rugby), lacrosse, squash and baseball/softball.
In Hollywood, anything is possible
The trademark of the Games will certainly be the beaches, the ocean and the famous Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles, but the West Coast metropolis will not be able to offer a historical background like Paris. Neither are iconic places like the Eiffel Tower or Versailles.
- But it has its charms - Elisha, one of the residents of Los Angeles, told the BBC.
- It's not Paris, but LA has Hollywood, and we in Hollywood can make everything possible - Elisha concluded.
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