Everything you need to know about the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

With the Paris Olympics behind us, the countdown to the LA Games in 2028 has begun. A new edition, in a very touristy American city, which sports fans are obviously eagerly awaiting.

A lot of information has already come out about this highly anticipated event. So let's review everything we know about the next Olympic Games.

Where Paris has outdone many of the host cities of the Games is that its sports facilities were all close to major Parisian monuments – something that Los Angeles will struggle to compete with.

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While Los Angeles is not as aesthetically appealing a city, in a traditional sense anyway, the United States does have one thing going for it – its celebrities.

As seen during the torchbearer between the two cities, Los Angeles will rely on its many stars from music, cinema and others to make the event more attractive.

Unlike in Paris, there will be no ground-breaking opening ceremony like the one on the Seine, but rather an introduction in a stadium, as we have been used to until now.

The Memorial Coliseum, an iconic stadium, is expected to be the venue for the opening ceremony.

Among the features of the next edition is the arrival of new Olympic sports: flag football, squash, cricket, lacrosse and baseball, as reported by ESPN.

New disciplines, many of which are huge parts of sporting culture in the United States, that the host country will be hoping to share with the rest of the world.

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As a new feature, we can also note the start of the athletics events from the first week, the opposite of what we usually see.

This will also be the first time that athletics will take place in the first week of the Games since Mexico in 1968.

Los Angeles has of course hosted the Olympic Games before, and in many ways, the 2028 edition will include some nods to the past, such as the diving events which will take place in the pools of Exposition Park – the place where the competition took place almost a hundred years ago in 1932.

There will also be beach volleyball events on the beaches of Santa Monica, where the sport was created.

One of the biggest questions is how tourists will move around the city, given that Los Angeles is an expansive city, not suitable for pedestrian traffic like most European cities.

Although the city does not have a culture of public transport, the city's mayor, Karen Bass, is planning to set up a network to enable the Games to take place, as reported by NPR.

The city apparently wants to follow Paris' example by trying to set up car-free Games, in order to make these two weeks as green as possible.

Finally, the LA edition will see the arrival of new palm trees. It's perhaps a lesser-known fact that many of the city's iconic palm trees were planted to make the city more attractive for the 1932 Games. Now those trees, of which there are around 70,000, are approaching the end of their life and are all set to be replaced with more draught-tolerant varieties ahead of the 2028 Games, as Pin Up magazine reported.

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