Concern is growing for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Hot, powerful winds continue to blow and fan the flames of fires in Los Angeles. The toll is already very heavy, at least 25 dead, 88,000 people displaced and more than 12,000 buildings destroyed or damaged.
Before hosting the Olympic Games for the third time, Los Angeles has an already busy sports calendar for the next three years. On the program, six football matches from the Club World Cup next June, the NBA All-Star Game in 2026, eight football World Cup matches also in 2026 and the Super Bowl in 2027.
The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, wanted to be reassuring on NBC in recent hours. “My humble position is not to be naively optimistic. We have a team in the process of plan Los Angeles 2.0 which will concern everyone affected by the disaster,” he said.
To what extent are these terrible fires real threats? Experts are currently poring over weather data, examining winds that don’t blow this way in summer. No Games venue was affected by the fireseven if the campus of UCLA University, the future Olympic village, was evacuated as a precaution.
The fear concerns insurance companies who will not want to take risks. In another context, the postponement of the Tokyo Games in 2021, due to the Covid pandemic, cost Japanese insurers $2 billion.
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