Today is the last day of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles is gearing up for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Total medal count of the top 5 nations:
USA - 122
China - 90
Britain - 63
France - 62
Australia - 50
After watching the beautiful "City of Light" host the 2024 Summer Olympics, some worry that LA won't meet expectations.
If you overlook the polluted Seine, Paris looks so pretty on TV, so quintessentially Parisian, that it raises the question: How will Los Angeles compare when it hosts the 2028 Olympics? We can rhapsodize about our fabulous mountains and beaches, gorgeous parks and gardens, and many breathtaking residential drives. But that’s not what people see when they first arrive to Los Angeles or what we encounter most days as we go about our business.
Instead, it’s long bleak corridors of concrete and traffic, off-ramps and intersections choked with weeds and trash, blocks of faceless (or defaced) buildings and front yards with boring (or dying) swaths of lawns. Things are especially grim at the entry point for most visitors — that interminable construction zone known as Los Angeles International Airport, where the main message after leaving the terminal appears to be “Welcome to Hell.”
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story ... ify-things
The rest of the article is a plan to beautify LA. If Paris had 30,000 cops per day patrolling during the Olympics, LA will have more and need a lot of outside cops. IIRC both LAPD and LA Sheriff's Dept have 10,000 sworn officers and there are municipalities in the county that could help along with surrounding counties.
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