Los Paris Olympics will pass the baton to Los Angeles 2028 this Sunday at the closing ceremony. And a lot will be different in four years.
New sports will make their Olympic debut, selected by the organisers, who will also bring back others that left the programme more than 100 years ago.
While Paris showed the Seine River, Los Angeles will have the Pacific Ocean and its beaches.
The incomparable historic buildings of Paris offered a cinematic aspect. Meanwhile, the streets of Los Angeles will show a living history of film and television.
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‘Flag football’, squash y obstacle course races. Yes, “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses to replace horses and liven up the modern pentathlon.
He ‘Flag football‘ is a welcome addition to the Los Angeles organisers’ list, who told IOC members last year that the sport represents “the future and the spearhead for the international growth of American football.”
El squash will join tennis and badminton as racquet sports at the Games. Could padel or pickleball one day follow suit?
Squash has been rejected in the past and, like flag football, is now heading to Los Angeles with no guarantee of staying for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
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There is no river in Los Angeles that can match the parade of athletes in Paris along the Seine, although two stadiums will be used instead of one: both the SoFi Stadium and the Memorial Coliseum from Los Angeles.
Los Paris Olympics They often looked amazing on screen. Los Angeles practically invented the modern look of film and television and is a creative hub for music and fashion.
The message here for Los Angeles is: don’t try to copy Paris.
“Paris is the most beautiful city in the world,” admitted the president of THE 2028, Casey Wasserman“The 2028 Games will be authentically Los Angeles.”
The IOC’s director of Olympic broadcasting, Yiannis Exarchos, He said that Los Angeles “cannot remake a city (Paris) with a 500-year history. Los Angeles speaks of the future, of new frontiers, of technology.”
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