Will Los Angeles Really Be Ready For The 2028 Olympics?

The games of the XXXIV Olympiad (also known as the Los Angeles Olympics or the Olympic and Paralympic Games LA28) will be held from Friday, July 14 to Sunday, July 30, 2028. According to the Olympic Committee, the LA28 Games will feature more than 3,000 hours of live sport across 800 events in more than 40 sports. Some 15,000 athletes are expected to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, and “millions” of visitors will attend.

Will the city be ready in three and a half years? Perhaps—but it’s certainly not ready now. And Los Angeles leaders have made several eye-opening statements about the upcoming Olympics. Most of the attention goes to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her decree that the 2028 Olympics will be a “no car games.

” The plan is to use public transit, as well as some 3000 buses corralled from all over the country. The city will also ask employers to let workers work at home rather than clog the freeways as usual. Many events will take place in downtown Los Angeles, at Crypto.

com Arena, the Convention Center and the venerable LA Coliseum, originally built for the 1932 Olympics. Other events will take place far from downtown LA, in Inglewood, Long Beach and Carson. Temecula, where the equestrian events will take place, is in Riverside County, two hours from downtown LA by car.

Bizarrely, softball and whitewater sports such as the canoe slalom will be held 1300 miles from Los Angeles in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. But even the events w.