The Olympic flag arrived yesterday in Los Angeles, the place it is going to be flown in 2028 when town hosts the subsequent Summer time Video games.
The flag arrived aboard a Delta Airways jet carrying American athletes and officers, and was painted with “LA28” and palm timber on its facet. Hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur’s “California Love” blasted on loudspeakers on the tarmac at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport because the aircraft got here to a cease.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stepped off the aircraft wearing a crimson Workforce USA tracksuit, smiled broadly and waved the Olympic flag earlier than descending airstairs to be greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Olympic diver Delaney Schnell, skateboarder Tate Carew and others accompanied the mayor.
Bass stated on the airport that she felt a “great pleasure and duty” in being given the Olympic Flag in Paris on Sunday. Whereas Los Angeles has been placing within the work to host an incredible Video games, the mayor stated American organizers now actually felt the “must put our foot on the gasoline.”
The Worldwide Olympic Committee awarded Los Angeles the correct in 2017 to host the 2028 Video games.
Will probably be the third time LA has hosted the Video games within the fashionable period, after being the host metropolis in 1932 and 1984.
Bass acknowledged Paris had set a excessive bar as an Olympic host, and that LA’s homelessness drawback could be a problem to beat. However the Metropolis of Angels has one world-class asset that no person else can declare: “We do have Hollywood, so I anticipate a whole lot of magical alternatives,” she advised Reuters in Paris.
Olympic officers in Paris handed the flag to their American counterparts on Sunday in the course of the closing ceremony. Actor Tom Cruise offered a dose of Hollywood flare in Paris, as he rappelled from the roof of France’s nationwide stadium to obtain the flag.
