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Biden supports Indigenous Olympic lacrosse teamWith lacrosse being added to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, it is only right that the group of people who invented the sport get an invite too. ...
Surprise, The Los Angeles Olympics Needs To Increase Its BudgetThe L.A. Olympics is nine years away and the budget’s already going up. The organizing committee for the 2028 Games announced today that the estimated cost of hosting has gone up from $6.2 billion to $6.9 billion. L.A. 2028 officials said that the $700 million increase was added to the budget to acc...
Organizers for the 2028 L.A. Olympics have boasted, repeatedly, that an overwhelming majority, between 78 and 83 percent, of Angelenos support the Olympics. However, NOlympics L.A. has raised some good questions about their poll in addition to conducting one of their own, which showed that 46 percen...
What's The Deal With Bill Simmons And Casey Wasserman?
Bill Simmons’s website and podcast have been a bit ... Casey Wasserman-y this year, haven’t they?...
L.A. City Council Hand-Waves Its Way To Unanimous 2028 Olympics Endorsement
A rushed and contentious Friday meeting returned the result the Los Angeles City Council was hoping for: a unanimous council endorsement of the 2028 Olympics bid, and agreement that the city would cover any cost overruns associated with the games. From a Los Angeles Times report:...
The 1984 Olympics Were Bad For Poor Black People In Los Angeles
Now that Los Angeles has won the bid to host the 2028 Olympics, it seems as good a time as any to look back at what happened to the city when it last hosted the events. The 1984 Games were successful in L.A., in that they were profitable for the host city and didn’t leave behind a bunch of decaying ...
L.A. Pols Rush To Make Sure No One Stops And Thinks About The Olympics<em></em>
Earlier this week, the International Olympic Council officially announced what had been obvious for months: Los Angeles would drop its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and take the 2028 games instead. Never mind that L.A. was handed the Games via a backroom deal rather than through the IOC’s formal ...
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Report: Los Angeles Officially Saddled With 2028 Olympics
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the citizens of L.A. will be forced to deal with the 2028 Olympics. Organizers in L.A. had been pushing hard for the 2024 Games and even went as far as saying they wouldn’t accept the “consolation prize” of the 2028 Games if Paris got 2024. Unfortuna...