To the editor: The 2028 Olympics, if they’re held in Los Angeles, will come to be often known as 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 standard however notorious model of governance. We will depend on Russia and North Korea. China is a perhaps. And that’s most likely about it.
Each different nation (and their shut associates) can 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 shall be, “Nice, extra medals for us!” But when I used to be a sponsor or answerable for 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 aren’t that metropolis anymore. Fires have since burned 1000’s of properties, leaving individuals homeless or dealing with the massive 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 get better. It is a gargantuan process, and we’ve got to look inward to heal and suppose how greatest to rebuild our hometown.
I’ve examine all the massive plans for the Olympics, they usually sound nice. However are they actually what we’d like proper now? The IOC may 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 after we’ve taken on an excessive amount of, and we should focus on the individuals who want our assist and repair. Our associates and neighbors who’ve misplaced the whole lot deserve this love and a focus greater than they want the festivities of the Olympics.
Jeanne Discipline, Los Angeles
