The main stadium used during the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games is to be turned into a mass COVID-19 vaccination centre.

 This includes SoFi Stadium, which will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Los Angeles

2028 Games, as well as Olympic football and archery.

Allianz, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new insurance partner, has revealed that COVID-19 wiped €1.3 billion (£1.1 billion/$1.6 billion) off its 2020 operating profit.

, originally announced in 2018, which takes in the Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026 and Los

Angeles 2028 Games, though not the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Allianz joined the IOC's The Olympic

The SoFi Stadium, which will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Los Angeles 2028 Games as

seater arena, built in September last year, serves as home for National Football League (NFL) teams Los

Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, and is due to host next year’s Super Bowl.Its conversion to a

vaccination centre has been arranged via a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District

Angeles County from schools that wish to participate in the COVID-19 vaccination programme.It is hoped

Angeles 2028 Ceremonies ©Getty ImagesSoFi Stadium is joining a number of NFL venues in opening up as

The United States International University Sports Federation (USIUSF) has endorsed a bid to stage the 2027 Summer World University Games in North Carolina.

2027, holds a lot of promise for Olympic sports in the United States as it is the year prior to the 2028

Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California," highlighted USIUSF President Dan Guerrero."

A supercomputer could be used to help ease the levels of traffic in Los Angeles during the build-up to

the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the United States city.

A new study published last month by location technology company TomTom revealed that Los Angeles has

public transit and alternative transportation modes to alleviate the pressure on city streets ahead of 2028

.The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in June 2018 released its "Vision 2028"

Angeles Department of Transportation placed the largest order for electric buses ever seen.Los Angeles

city's bus fleet to produce zero emissions by the time the city hosts the Olympics and Paralympics in 2028

The 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games is set to be featured prominently at Super Bowl LVI to be played

next year at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

 Wasserman is also the chairman of Los Angeles 2028 and he unveiled the campaign tagline of "Champions

Angeles 2028 with the 70,000-capacity SoFi Stadium hosting the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well

Los Angeles hosted the first Super Bowl in 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the

1932 and 1984 Olympics and will stage the athletics in 2028.

and Hollywood Park, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers to bring the nation's biggest

LA84 Foundation President and chief executive Renata Simril believes enrolling children in sport can help break down racial barriers.

 Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games ©Getty Images"Teamwork, excellence

In November, the LA84 Foundation published the results of the Los Angeles County Youth Sports Participation

whole.The LA84 Foundation, a non-profit organisation established to manage the profits generated by Los

Angeles hosting the 1984 Olympic and Paralympic Games, announced in December that it would provide more

is due to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time since 1984 in 2028.

American track and field athlete Jordan Gray has launched a campaign for a women's decathlon event to be included at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

campaign for Paris is unlikely to be successful with the Paris 2024 programme already confirmed, but Los

Angeles 2028 may be a more realistic target.

Hopefully in 2028, I’ll be 32 and rocking it at the US Championships in the decathlon," Gray said.

Games.Pentathlon was then added for female competitors at Tokyo 1964, before it was replaced by the heptathlon at Los

Angeles 1984.

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Global Sports Week's events in Paris ©Getty ImagesA panel of guests joined Global Sports Week live from Los

Angeles to discuss the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics ©Global Sports WeekTeams of Young Sports

Janet Evans, chief athlete officer for the Los Angeles 2028 Games, told Global Sports Week Paris today

Speaking from a live link in Los Angeles, Evans - four times an Olympic swimming gold medallist - insisted

So I feel like athletes have a voice and I think that’s one of the things in Los Angeles - our athletes

have manifestos, and they can use Los Angeles and what we have to talk about their platforms, about

Asked what the Los Angeles Games legacy might look like, given that nothing extra needs to be built to

During the bid we spoke a lot about the Olympics being part of the DNA of the city of Los Angeles and

Cape Verde has been taking part in the World Flying Disc Federation's (WFDF) development grant programme.

The modalities of Los Angeles 2028 or in other editions are not yet determined and maybe this is a good

Among the many and varied problems thrown up for sports leaders by the coronavirus pandemic, disruption to the insurance market is not the least irksome.

scheme.This is under an eight-year deal which will cover Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026 and Los

Angeles 2028.On prices, Miller’s Baxter says: "Generally speaking, rates are anywhere between 25 per

Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games executive director, told Global Sports Week (GSW) Paris this evening that it was important to maintain a balance between new and traditional sports as the Olympics and Paralympics develop.

Engagement is the key," he added.Kathy Carter, chief revenue officer for the Los Angeles 2028 Games,

Speaking on a live link from Los Angeles, Kathy Carter, chief revenue officer for the Los Angeles 2028

Generation Z and millennials will be the core of our followers for the Games of 2028."

It is surely the most agonising Question of Sport ever. Will Tokyo 2020, rescheduled for this summer, go ahead as planned? Or perhaps more pertinently should the Olympic and Paralympic Games now be abandoned as yet another victim of COVID-19?

and organisers) or held in Tokyo instead of Paris in 2024, with that event being pushed back to the Los

Angeles slot in 2028, and Tokyo 2020 finally coming to fruition in 2032.

ImagesTokyo, he suggested, should stage the Games in 2024 instead, with subsequent hosts Paris and Los

Angeles both shifted back four years to accommodate the rejig.However, both the IOC and the Games Organising

France’s Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, and Pierre Rabadan, the deputy mayor of Paris will attend tomorrow’s official opening at the Tour Eiffel of the second Global Sports Week (GSW) Paris.

, President of the International Paralympic Federation, Kathy Carter, chief revenue officer for the Los

Angeles 2028 Games and Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi.The Arena Live programme will