To the editor: The 2028 Olympics, if they’re held in Los Angeles, will come to be often called the “dictator video games.”
Why? Properly, after the president completes his scorched-Earth foreign relations plan and creates enemies out of allies, those that are left standing will share a typical however notorious model of governance. We are able to rely on Russia and North Korea. China is a perhaps. And that’s most likely about it.
Each different nation (and their shut associates) may have suffered ridicule or alienation by the hands of our nice chief. As such, their boycott of the Olympics is an affordable response.
The White Home response can be, “Nice, extra medals for us!” But when I used to be a sponsor or in command of ticket gross sales for the L.A. video games, I’d be getting ready for a massacre.
And if I used to be on the Worldwide Olympic Committee, I might have already launched into discovering an alternate venue — one in a rustic that’s not more and more loathed by the remainder of the free world.
Come to consider it, because the U.S. continues to alienate Mexico (and by proxy Central and South America) together with Denmark (and by proxy most of Europe), a boycott of the 2026 World Cup by these two soccer-crazed areas appears a logical final result.
J.A. Hamilton, Boston
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To the editor: L.A. internet hosting the 2028 Olympics sounded nice final 12 months. Nevertheless, we’re not that metropolis anymore. Fires have since burned hundreds of houses, leaving folks homeless or dealing with the large process of rebuilding, promoting or doing one thing else.
Everybody acknowledges that there was a housing disaster for years. Now, this disaster is monumental. Los Angeles wants to focus on serving to its residents recuperate. This can be a gargantuan process, and now we have to look inward to heal and suppose how finest to rebuild our hometown.
I’ve examine all the massive plans for the Olympics, and so they sound nice. However are they actually what we want proper now? The IOC might step in and transfer the 2028 Video games to a different worthy metropolis, one which doesn’t have the large challenges that Los Angeles faces.
Maturity is the intelligence that tells us once we’ve taken on an excessive amount of, and we should consider the individuals who want our assist and repair. Our associates and neighbors who’ve misplaced every part deserve this love and a spotlight greater than they want the festivities of the Olympics.
Jeanne Area, Los Angeles
