The Hollywood Olympics: All you need to know about Los Angeles 2028

All nan sporting action has now vanished astatine nan Olympics successful Paris, and nan celebrated five-ringed emblem is being handed connected to nan 2028 big city, Los Angeles.

US citizens who travelled to Paris for this year's Games told nan BBC they person precocious hopes for 2028.

LA resident Marisa was assured nan arena would beryllium appropriately radiated pinch section “Hollywood glamour”. But she maintained Paris had group a very precocious bar.

Fellow Americans who said to nan BBC had concerns Los Angeles would not beryllium capable to lucifer France's awesome nationalist carrier network.

With nan countdown to LA now nether way, present is what we cognize truthful acold astir nan adjacent summertime Games - which will besides people LA's first Paralympics.

The Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremonial will return spot connected 14 July 2028, pinch nan closing ceremonial conscionable complete 2 weeks later, connected 30 July.

The Paralympic opening ceremonial will beryllium connected 15 August, and nan closing arena will beryllium connected 27 August.

In all, much than 50 Olympic and Paralympic sports will beryllium contested crossed much than 800 events.

The 2028 Games marks nan 3rd clip LA has hosted nan Olympics, and organisers - who person been eager to emphasise their sustainability credentials - person said nary new, imperishable constructions will beryllium needed for nan event.

Instead, dozens of existing sites person been earmarked for use, including nan location stadium of shot squad LA Galaxy and nan LA Memorial Coliseum, which will big nan athletics events arsenic it did successful LA's 2 erstwhile Olympics.

Perhaps unsurprisingly successful a metropolis that is celebrated for its palm-fringed shoreline, formation volleyball is expected to beryllium hosted connected an existent formation - thing that was not imaginable successful Paris this year.

But immoderate venues will request to beryllium adapted. For example, nan SoFi Stadium, arsenic it is presently known, successful nan suburb of Inglewood, will beryllium converted to big nan swimming races, pinch a resplendent Olympic excavation added.

Meanwhile, student lodging astatine nan University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will beryllium turned into nan athletes' colony for nan summer, and supply training facilities.

From a sustainability perspective, it remains to beryllium seen whether LA tin propulsion disconnected nan "car-free" Games it pledged aft winning nan bid successful 2017.

Moving thousands of spectators crossed nan sprawling Californian metropolis poses a immense situation for organisers - pinch existent hopes for car-free transit pinned connected a fleet of buses, aft plans for a awesome obstruction web upgrade fizzled out, according to nan Los Angeles Times.

Nor will it travel cheap.

The astir caller fund forecasts expenditure of astir $7bn (£5.5bn) connected nan Games themselves, successful summation to immoderate carrier upgrades.

In summation to nan much acquainted Olympic sports, nan Los Angeles Games will spot a revival of immoderate disciplines not seen for a while, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller additions.

• Cricket will beryllium played astatine nan Olympics for nan first clip since 1900. In LA, we tin expect to spot tournaments successful T20 - a shortened format that sees some teams constricted to bowling and batting for nary much than 20 overs each. Great Britain will fancy its badge chances, arsenic it has immoderate of nan world's apical cricketers
• Lacrosse is besides making a comeback. Despite being 1 of nan oldest sports to beryllium played successful North America, lacrosse has not been played astatine Olympic level for much than a century. A caller format will beryllium introduced successful 2028, which will spot teams of six utilizing their lacrosse sticks to occurrence a shot into a goal
• Baseball/softball - bat-and-ball sports of a akin type, played by men and women respectively, will besides return, having been omitted successful Paris successful 2024
• Squash is owed to make its first quality astatine an Olympics aft years of campaigning from aficionados
• will besides make its Olympic debut. This is simply a non-contact type of gridiron (American) football, played connected a smaller transportation pinch smaller teams, successful which tackles are made by removing a emblem from an opponent. It is nan fastest-growing version of nan athletics successful nan UK, according to nan British American Football Association
• There will besides beryllium 1 caller Paralympic discipline: Paraclimbing. This challenges athletes successful different classifications to standard a 15m (50ft) wall utilizing hand-holds

Certain different Olympic sports that are comparatively caller to nan line-up will continue, including surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing.

But breaking, which debuted astatine nan Paris Games, has not been picked arsenic 1 of nan disciplines - to nan disappointment of some, fixed that this type of thoroughfare creation was pioneered by nan US.

We tin expect to spot immoderate of nan biggest names from Paris 2024 successful Los Angeles, too.

Keely Hodgkinson stormed to golden successful nan women’s 800m successful France. She will beryllium 26 travel nan adjacent Olympics – still successful her athletics prime.

One of nan breakout stars from this year's Games has been swimmer Léon Marchand, shouted to 4 golden medals by nan Parisian crowds pinch cries of "allez!" whenever his caput emerged supra water.

Marchand, too, will beryllium 26 successful 2028, and looks apt to beryllium successful LA to fend disconnected immoderate challengers to his Olympic crown successful nan pool.

The mostly of contenders successful this year's skateboarding arena will stay successful contention for 2028, peculiarly fixed nan singular younker of nan athletes successful Paris, specified arsenic 11-year-old Zheng Haohao of China and Britain’s Sky Brown.

Brown, doubly an Olympic bronze medallist, will still only beryllium 20 by nan adjacent Games – nan mobility will beryllium whether she skates, aliases qualifies for surfing adjacent time.

However, nan information of different world stars is little certain. Simone Biles, arguably nan astir recognisable sanction astatine Paris, will beryllium 31. Few gymnasts proceed competing into their 30s, but megastar Biles whitethorn fancy an Olympics successful beforehand of a location crowd, and a bid to adhd to her 11 medals.

Newly-crowned men’s 100m champion Noah Lyles will besides beryllium 31 travel LA 2028 - but should still beryllium fresh and good primed to emulate US compatriot Carl Lewis successful his defence of that astir celebrated of Olympic titles.

But location whitethorn beryllium a changing of nan defender for Team GB. Swimmer Adam Peaty has hinted that Paris was his past Games, and diver Tom Daley only came retired of retirement, to triumph metallic successful Paris, astatine his young son's request.

However, GB rower Helen Glover has not ruled retired a 4th Games and a bid for a 4th badge successful LA – erstwhile she will beryllium 42.

During 1 luncheon break, fans gathered astatine 3rd Base Sports Bar successful Los Angeles to watch nan US women's Olympic hoops squad compete successful Paris. Loud cheers erupted arsenic soon arsenic nan US squad walked retired connected court.

In conscionable 4 years, galore of those sporting events will beryllium held conscionable a fewer miles away.

The excitement here, though, is mixed pinch interest - and immoderate dread.

The metropolis is nary alien to hosting big-scale events, from nan Oscars to nan Super Bowl, but it is besides good acquainted pinch nan downsides of hosting awesome spectacles.

LA is besides known to person immoderate of nan worst postulation successful nan US, and its mediocre transit strategy is bemoaned nationally and internationally.

At nan clip of nan bid, it was hoped nan Games would unit nan metropolis to hole immoderate of its carrier woes, but nan scrapping of plans to widen nan train network, and nan determination to adhd a fleet of buses instead, has not thrilled residents.

Nor does it bode good for nan millions of visitors nan Olympics typically brings to a big city.

“There's already a batch of postulation each day,” said Cory, while enjoying a burger successful nan bar. "And past you're bringing group present who don't cognize wherever they're going..."

Los Angeles besides has 1 of nan highest concentrations of homelessness successful nan US.

Elisha told nan BBC she was "hopeful" nan 2028 Games mightiness beryllium a catalyst to yet addressing homelessness successful nan metropolis and uncovering a semipermanent solution.

The Games will observe LA's melodramatic and picturesque coastline and nan legendary Hollywood motion that hangs complete nan city's skyline, but nan West Coast metropolis can't boast nan aforesaid extravagant, historical backdrop arsenic Paris.

But while Los Angeles mightiness not connection iconic sites for illustration nan Eiffel Tower aliases nan Palace of Versailles, nan metropolis has its ain charms, Elisha stressed.

“It’s not Paris, but LA has Hollywood - and we tin make thing hap successful Hollywood."

The past clip Los Angeles hosted nan Olympics, successful 1984, Prince topped nan US Billboard singles' floor plan and nan Games were boycotted by a Cold War-era Soviet Union complete commercialisation and information issues.

Great Britain won 5 golden medals. Among its champions were decathlete Daley Thompson, javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson, a young rower named Steve Redgrave, and 1,500m runner Seb Coe - who went to lead nan World Athletics body.

But nan undoubted sporting superstar of Los Angeles 1984 was location talent Carl Lewis, who won golden successful nan men's 100m, 200m, agelong jump and 4x100m relay events.

The US dominated nan medals table, and - dissimilar coming - was unrivalled by China.

Among a number of historical moments, nan 1984 Games saw nan first women's Olympic marathon.

That year's Paralympics were jointly hosted successful Stoke Mandeville, England, and New York - marking nan last clip that a azygous big metropolis did not big some nan Olympics and Paralympics.

The 1932 Olympics successful Los Angeles took spot nether nan unreality of nan Great Depression, successful a California that was overmuch little built-up than it is today.

There was nary arena balanced to nan modern-day Paralympics.

The Games were importantly shorter than erstwhile editions, and saw less competitors than previously.

But nan crowds are reported to person been immense - including a turnout of approximately100,000 group astatine nan opening ceremony.

The twelvemonth besides marked nan debut of nan now-familiar medals podium.

Additional accumulation and image investigation by Yazmina Garcia