After a successful 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, the bar has been set high for the next summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028, something that key stakeholders in that event say the city will be ready for.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told CNBC\u2019s\u00a0Andrew Ross Sorkin\u00a0at CNBC x Boardroom\u2019s Game Plan sports business event on Tuesday that what is making her anxious is \u201call that we need to do in our city to prepare\u201d for the 2028 Games. However, she said that much like the last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1984, she believes the city will not only improve to host the Games but will benefit once they are over.<\/p>\n
That includes work on public transportation. Bass said she is hoping there will be \u201cno cars to the venues,\u201d and that viewers will take public transportation to the Games \u2014 a pledge that will require an investment in both bus and subway infrastructure, as well as collaboration with other cities to borrow buses.<\/p>\n
Bass said the city is also doing \u201cwhatever we can to eliminate street homelessness,\u201d including building more than 18,000 new units for the unhoused population.<\/p>\n
Bass said there will also be discussions with companies in Los Angeles around work schedules to shift employees to remote work during periods of high traffic, as well as find ways to shift truck deliveries into the night, like what happened during the 1984 Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there is a way we can organize the region so that traffic will be less and manageable,\u201d Bass said.<\/p>\n
LA 2028 President Casey Wasserman attended the Paris Games, an event that he told Ross Sorkin \u201creminded people why they fall in love with the Olympics,\u201d and one he said organizers will look to build upon in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
While no new permanent venues will be built for the Los Angeles Games, the first time in Olympics history, there are some challenges in utilizing all the city\u2019s landmarks in the way Paris was able to feature famous locations like the Eiffel Tower by hosting beach volleyball nearby. Wasserman said Los Angeles got a glimpse of that with the Olympic Torch handover ceremony, when Tom Cruise scaled the Hollywood Sign and the Olympic Rings replaced the \u201cOO\u201d\u2019s in the sign \u2014 which Wasserman noted was done with CGI.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s obviously a longer, complicated conversation,\u201d Wasserman said of altering the Hollywood Sign for the Games. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s a pretty spectacular opportunity if there was a way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Actress Jessica Alba, who is on the Los Angeles 2028 board of directors, said the Games will present all different aspects of the city\u2019s culture, from Hollywood to fashion to food, as \u201ca global platform to showcase what they got.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLA is a main character,\u201d Alba said. \u201cWe want it to be a main character during the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Disclosure: CNBC parent NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer and Winter Games through 2032.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n After a successful 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, the bar has been set high for the next summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028, something that key stakeholders in that event say the city will be ready for. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told CNBC\u2019s\u00a0Andrew Ross Sorkin\u00a0at CNBC x Boardroom\u2019s Game Plan sports business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}