THE 2028 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held from July 21 to August 6.
But who will Paris pass the flame to after the 2024 games are over?
Where will the 2028 Olympics be held?
The Games, which is officially known as the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, and commonly stylized LA28, will follow after the 2024 Games in Paris.
The 2028 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place from July 21 to August 6, 2028, in Los Angeles, California.
It will be the first Summer Games to be held in the US since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hosting duties were granted to the US in 2017.
On July 31, 2017, an agreement was reached whereby Los Angeles would bid for the 2028 Games with $1.8billion of additional funding from the IOC.
Has the US hosted the Olympic games before?
The United States has hosted or is the designated host of the Modern Games on nine occasions – more than any other nation.
The last Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, in 1996.
And the Winter Games was held in the United States in 2002, when Utah played host.
The very first Modern Games held in the United States dates back to 1904, when they took place in Missouri.
Here's the full list:
- 2028 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, California
- 2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, Georgia
- 1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, California
- 1980 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid, New York
- 1960 Winter Olympics – Squaw Valley, California
- 1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, California
- 1932 Winter Olympics – Lake Placid, New York
- 1904 Summer Olympics – St Louis, Missouri
Where are the LA Olympic venues?
The Games will be held across various venues in downtown Los Angeles.
Multiple venues will be located at LA Live, Exposition Park and the campus of the University of Southern California.
Several sporting events will be held in San Fernando Valley, while others will be held at the California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California.
Long Beach and Westside will play host to several venues, while rowing, canoeing and mountain biking, among other events, will take place across Southern Californian venues.
Football venues are to be situated within Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and other main cities of California
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Where will the athletes stay in LA?
The athletes will stay at the Olympic Village, in the University of California.
Athletes and support personnel will live in student housing at University of California, Los Angeles, which was already planning to build more dorms for a growing student body.
The school is expected to easily meet a target for 17,000 beds by 2028.
The media hub will be based at the University of Southern California, which will have 3,200 beds.
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