As the Paris Olympics Wind Down, Los Angeles Swings Into Planning for 2028

TIME

Planning for the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028 is already well underway and organizers are paying close attention to what's worked, and what hasn't so far in Paris.

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00:00The great news about California and our games is that we're using UCLA as our village,

00:04so we feed thousands of students a day, and we house, well they, we don't, UCLA houses thousands

00:11of students a day, and so we're tried and tested and true. I eat the food once a week at least at

00:15UCLA, which is delicious, so I can vouch for that. So, but those are things that are important to us.

00:20So what does their food taste like? Are we giving them the kind of food that they're used to in

00:24their training? What's the diversity of our food options and choices? How quickly can the athletes

00:29get the food, right? Because I know wait times can be an issue for athletes. Some of them are

00:33off to the track, or off to the pool, or off to the gym. They need to grab their food and go. So

00:37a lot of that is what we're thinking about, but the great news for us is because it exists,

00:41we can actually go observe. They're not going to be Olympian and Paralympic athletes, but they're

00:45going to be young people and students, and so we can observe what they're experiencing and tailor

00:50that for our athletes. Paris is, is, is beautiful. It's, it's Paris, right? So, you know, we don't

00:56have an Eiffel Tower, but we have, we have our beaches. We have the Hollywood sign. We have

01:01Hollywood. We have glamour. We have the energy of California, the technology of California,

01:07the United States, and so we want our games to be a modern games, youthful, full of the, the

01:13optimism that Southern California brings to the world and the globe, and it's, it's going to be

01:18unique. It's going to be a California Olympics. It's going to be different than this. It has to

01:21be different than this, but we already have our stadiums built. It's a no-build games,

01:26and so I think that we're, we're going to do a great job.

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