To the editor: I’ve lengthy thought that, whereas initially a visionary and thrilling concept, Los Angeles is now not, and can’t be, prepared and in a position to host the 2028 Olympics (“L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it’s time to pull out,” Aug. 7). There are too many obstacles to be navigated and given this nice metropolis’s huge challenges — primarily monetary and people regarding transportation and our unhoused neighbors — it’s time to withdraw and concentrate on the problems needed for stability, sustainability and progress.
I used to be virtually able to squelch my pessimism, after which President Trump created the White Home Process Pressure for the 2028 Olympics. With this motion, clearly reflecting Trump’s loathing of Los Angeles and the chance he sees to meddle mercilessly, the one response by LA28 chair Casey Wasserman and his staff must be a powerful no and withdrawal. They might be quickly embarrassed and criticized, however taking such a step would reveal energy and goal, and L.A. would emerge as a robust chief. To do anything can be cowardly.
Terry Knowles, Pasadena
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To the editor: I agree with columnist Gustavo Arellano that L.A. ought to pull out of the 2028 Olympics. He made wonderful factors however ignored one other essential argument: The present administration has made worldwide vacationers really feel unwelcome and unsafe visiting the USA. Worldwide tourism is already down significantly. How a lot worse will it’s three years from now? If the remainder of the world stays dwelling and watches the Olympics on TV or on-line, there can be no profit for Los Angeles, solely giant prices.
Daybreak Greene, Sunland
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To the editor: I discover the decision to bail out of the 2028 Olympics past the pale. As a volunteer who greeted Olympic arrivals at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in 1984, I take a look at the final Olympics hosted by L.A. as one of many high 5 occasions of my life and may’t await it to come back again once more.
Within the succesful palms of Mayor Karen Bass, I harbor little question that the occasion will happen as deliberate from earlier than begin to after end.
Mathilde Diaz, Lengthy Island Metropolis, N.Y.
