It Took Me All of 10 Minutes!

Two summers from now, Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games for a third time. If you have been thinking about being there, June is the month to act; Drop 2 registration closes July 22, with refreshed inventory across every Olympic sport when tickets release in August. 🌴

In My Olympic Life, I wrote about the first time this city claimed me: "In 1981, I moved to Los Angeles to join the organizing committee of the 1984 Games. It took me all of 10 minutes to figure out that the City of Angels would be my home."

That was forty-five years ago. I came for the Games and never left. The city hosted me, taught me, and then trusted me with its grandest civic dream more than once. The 1984 Games proved the Olympics could be staged through a public-private partnership; LA28 is poised to prove something different... that a Games can be the most inclusive in Olympic history, with women holding more competition spots than men for the first time ever, even!

Children who today are six or eight years old will walk into LA28 venues in 2028; some of them will decide on the spot to become Olympians. That is the part I keep thinking about as the registrations roll in!