Here’s everything to know about the next Olympics after Milan Cortina:
When are the next Olympics?
While the next Winter Games will transpire in 2030 four years from now, the next Summer Olympics is set for 2028 — four years after the Paris Games.
Where will the next Olympics be?
The next Olympics will be headed to Southern California for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. The action will run from Friday, July 14 to Sunday, July 30.
Which venues will be used at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?
Events will be spread out through over 15 zones in the Los Angeles area, including Long Beach, Inglewood, Venice and more.
Not every event will be held in California, though, as stadiums in New York, San Jose, Columbus, Nashville, San Diego and St. Louis will host soccer games.
The full list of official venues is on LA28’s website here.
The LA28 team is already working on their own sustainability plans after Paris hosted the most climate-conscious Summer Olympics yet. National climate reporter Chase Cain talks with LA28’s head of sustainability about their climate goals for 2028.
Previous Summer Olympics in the U.S.
The 2028 Games will be the fifth Summer Olympics held in the U.S. Here are the previous four locations:
NBC will remain the broadcasting home for the Summer Olympics in 2028, as television and streaming rights in the U.S. will be with NBCUniversal’s platforms.
Future Summer Olympics locations
Beyond 2028, only the 2032 Summer Olympics have a confirmed host: Brisbane, Australia.
Brisbane was picked Wednesday to host the 2032 Olympics
(CNN) — Organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Summer Olympics have promised that there will be affordable tickets for the Games that start in less than three years time.
On Monday, LA28 announced fans would be able to register for tickets from January 14, 2026 and that at least one million would be priced at $28, according to Reuters.
“Every sport starts at $28 and that’s not just lip service to a couple tickets in the corner of some venue, but a meaningful number of tickets,” said Allison Katz-Mayfield, LA28’s senior vice president of Games delivery revenue, per Reuters.
“We’re looking at at least a million tickets at $28 and we’ve got about a third of our tickets under $100.”
After fans register on January 14, they will enter into a random ticket draw and hope to receive a time slot in which to purchase tickets later in 2026.
Global soccer governing body FIFA launched its third phase of ticket sales last week, with fans discovering the cheapest seat for the final would cost them more than $4,000.
Amid the backlash, FIFA said five million ticket requests were made in the first 24 hours of the third phase being launched and confirmed it would reinvest the revenue it generates “to fuel the growth of football.”
FIFA, though, had also promised it would be an affordable World Cup for fans, so many Olympic enthusiasts might wait to see a confirmed list of prices for LA28 before getting too excited.
CNN Sports has reached out to LA28 for comment about when a confirmed list of prices will be made available but has not yet received a reply.
Los Angeles has already hosted two Olympics, in 1932 and 1984, with venues for the latest edition laid out across the sprawling city.
The next Summer Olympics will begin on July 14, 2028 with the opening ceremony and will run until July 30, 2028. The Paralympic Games will begin on August 15, 2028 and close on August 27, 2028.
Mayor Karen Bass is set to announce a plan, including a collaboration between LA28 and Highland Electric Fleets, to advance the city’s sustainability and public transportation goals for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors had previously requested a report last year on overall preparation plans to ensure a successful event.
Board Chairwoman and Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn introduced the motion on Sept. 20.
The supervisor wants the agency to examine the number of bus operators and maintenance staff needed for the 2028 Olympics.
Additionally, the report would include details on a broader staffing plan, efforts to coordinate with other municipal bus operators and Metrolink, as well as a cost estimate and potential funding sources.
The Olympics will return to Los Angeles for an historic third time in 2028.
The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028 with competition through July 30, 2028. The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028 and close Aug. 27, 2028.
The organizing committee released a first look at the competition schedule last month.
Snoop Dogg was the most visible American public figure during the 2024 Olympics and he may have earned a whopping $9M for the fun he had in Paris.
Now that the 2024 Olympics are over, the road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has begun where Snoop Dogg will likely return to be the unofficial Team USA mascot.
During this year’s events, Snoop Dogg was visibly present and even carried the Olympic torch into Paris ahead of the Opening Ceremony. From what we saw, Snoop deserved a gold medal for his time in the City of Light where he closed things out with Dr. Dre for the handover to LA ’28 as part of the Closing Ceremony.
During the Olympics, a rumor surfaced Snoop was banking $500K a day to participate, and on Friday, Snoop seemingly hinted that he made a whopping $9 million overall for his Olympic side quests.
On Instagram, Snoop reposted a creator who broke down his possible earnings.
“This is the main star of the Paris Olympics. Snoop Dogg, a top rapper, gets over $40M rubles daily for his presence at the Paris Olympic Games,” the video says. “Snoop also lives and parties in Paris for free, all to bring more attention to the Olympics. Almost every top broadcast features Snoop, he attends all major Olympic events. For 17 Olympic days, he’ll earn nearly $9 million.”
Snoop didn’t comment on the video but his reposting of it has fans convinced that it’s true.
While $9M is a hefty price tag, it was well worth it and hopefully NBC execs will pay him that much again for the 2028 games.
You can watch the breakdown Snoop Dogg shared on Instagram below.
As Los Angeles gets ready to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in four years, more than 20 million people who call Southern California home may have an opportunity to be part of the international sporting event by becoming a volunteer.
But as we learned from the volunteer recruitment process in Paris, the volunteer application process appears to be quite competitive.
After more more than 300,000 people from around the world applied to become volunteers in the Paris Olympics, only about 15% of them – 45,000 – were selected to serve various supporting roles.
Volunteer qualifications
LA28 organizers have not announced details about the volunteer programs yet, but based on what we learned from the Paris Olympics, applicants must be at least 18 years old at the beginning of the Olympic year and be available to work for about three to four weeks – 10 days before the opening of the Athlete’s Village and two days after the closing ceremony.
During the 2024 Olympics, selected volunteers spoke English and/or French. Organizers behind the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are also looking for bilingual volunteers who can speak and understand English and/or Italian.
Given more than one third of Los Angeles residents are foreign-born, bilingual applicants are likely to have a competitive edge.
As LA28 organizers fine-tune details, they encourage interested people to sign up for the LA28 newsletter for updates.
What do volunteers do?
Volunteers may be assigned to support in the areas of hospitality, event operations, language and more.
Those who support hospitality and operations may be asked to welcome guests, athletes and delegations, making sure the organizational process runs smoothly with property equipment.
Volunteers who provide support at competition venues may be asked to pick up balls, set up starting blocks and more.
For the Milan Cortina Olympics, linguistic volunteers are being sought “to ensure that spectators and stakeholders from all over the world have an incredible time.”
Images: See venues planned for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
Can I get paid while helping put together LA28?
Yes, LA28 is looking to fill a number of roles in helping put together the 2028 Olympics.
There are no tickets on sale for the 2028 Olympics yet. But LA28 is encouraging fans to sign up for the official hospitality packages as soon as they go live.
The Olympics are revered for their storied legacy, but there is one tradition that isn’t so celebrated – once opulent Olympic venues repeatedly neglected and turned into forgotten relics once the games are over.
“We’ve got the ruins of ancient Olympia in Greece, but now we’ve got the ruins of modern Olympia,” said historian Miles Osgood, a Stanford University lecturer who has been studying the cultural impact of the Olympic games for nearly a decade.
“You have all of these single-use stadiums in the suburbs…that saw a little bit of action for the Olympics and then we’re allowed to crumble.”
An entire aquatics park was left abandoned in Brazil after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, athlete housing is now nothing more than rundown apartments in Greece following the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and bobsled tracks – covered in graffiti – lead to nowhere after they were showcased in the 1984 Winter Games in Bosnia.
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The bobsled tracks used in Bosnia’s 1984 Olympic Games are now covered in graffiti and overgrown weeds.
Venues at Paris Summer Games resemble Olympic roots
Paris has noticeably tried to return to the glory days of the Olympics by hosting the games in the heart of the city, instead of constructing new and permanent facilities in the outskirts of town. The Seine river was used for the swimming portion of the triathlon, while temporary seating helped transform the Eiffel Tower into the world’s most vibrant beach volleyball court. In fact, roughly 95% of the Olympic venues used during the current Paris Games either already existed or were designed to be temporary, according to the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee.
“Paris 2024 is proving that it’s possible to stage a spectacular, inclusive, and unique games in a more responsible, more sustainable and more useful manner,” said Tania Braga, Head of Olympic Games Impact and Legacy for the International Olympic Committee.
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Temporary seating setup at the base of the Eiffel Tower allowed Paris to create one of the most iconic beach volleyball courts in the world.
LA vows to rely on existing or temporary arenas for 2028 Games
Los Angeles is set to host the next Summer Olympics in 2028 and has already pledged to be the first Olympic Games in modern history to forgo building any permanent venues. Instead, LA will make use of existing facilities like the Lakers’ home arena downtown and the nearby LA Memorial Coliseum.
“The combination of all that allows us to a deliver a games that’s not about construction projects,” said Casey Wasserman, chair of the LA28 planning committee, who made the comments in a promotional video released by his group.
“It’s about embracing the community, embracing the city, welcoming the world into our existing facilities, into our existing infrastructure, and doing it in the most innovative and dynamic way we can do it.”
Los Angeles followed a similar mantra the last time it hosted the Summer Games in 1984, which many experts still consider the only modern Olympics that was profitable.
While building less certainly brings environmental benefits, the decision for cities to use what they already have is largely about cost. The Olympics are notorious for running overbudget by billions of dollars. On average, Olympic host cities pay 159% more than what was originally budgeted, according to researchers at the University of Oxford.
In fact, Budapest, Hamburg, and Rome all pulled out as potential host cities for the current games because of budget concerns, leaving just Paris and Los Angeles.
The International Olympic Committee then took the unusual step of simultaneously offering Paris the 2024 Games and LA the host spot for the 2028 games – essentially skipping the selection process for the next Summer Olympics amid concerns the IOC would struggle to find a willing host.
Historian Miles Osgood says the best way to recruit cities in the future is to look to the past.
The founder of the Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, really cared about the games being beautiful and incorporating arts and culture – a beautiful architectural surrounding and then a beautiful civic surrounding, Osgood said. “So for Paris to bring things back into some of its most iconic spaces and before some of its most iconic landmarks…I think fulfills that esthetic legacy.”
At an expected price tag of nearly $9 billion, the Paris Olympics will likely be one of the cheapest Summer Games in decades. Los Angeles hopes to cut costs even more in 2028 with an estimated budget of roughly $7 billion, but even that figure has already ballooned by about 30 percent from the original budget.
The push for cities to build less, however, could carry unintended consequences of dramatically reducing the number of countries eligible to host the Olympic games in the future.
“It immediately shrinks the group of potential hosts to cities who have already hosted the Olympic Games,” said Alexander Budzier, who has studied the economic impact of the Olympic Games dating back to the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
“It will be very, very unlikely that we will see another city from an emerging economy or…that hasn’t hosted the games already to stage a new edition of the games,” Budzier added.
“On the other hand, you have the Olympic movement, that has the goal and objective and the value to increase sport participation globally.”
