Not excited about the Coliseum as the track venue. No shade at all for fans, unlike every other Olympic stadium for at least the last 50 years. Used to seat 90,000 - 100,000 which would have been awesome, but that's been reduced to 77,000 to accommodate growing American asses and lack of interest in USC football. They'll need to take out tens of thousands more seats to fit the track as they've moved the seating closer to the field over the years, so think more like 50,000. Keeping in line with how American pro sports stadiums have been getting smaller to keep ticket prices high and middle-class people out. And the renderings show the main straight will be basically a glass tower of luxury suites, with just a couple thousand seats that will be limited to V.V.I.P.s.
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Ummmm...you might want to look into a hat, some sunscreen, and adequate hydration. I don't remember hearing about thousands of heat stroke deaths in 1984.
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Fetch the Fainting Couch! wrote:
Ummmm...you might want to look into a hat, some sunscreen, and adequate hydration. I don't remember hearing about thousands of heat stroke deaths in 1984.
Great to know that while I may be pretty uncomfortable, I won't die of heat stroke.
Now address the limited capacity and the dearth of seats along the main straightaway. I think the New Balance indoor track may actually have more seating in that area than the proposed Coliseum configuration.
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Wontbethatbad wrote:
Luckily there's no Olympic venues in skid row. The distance between venues and lack of public transportation between them and general walkability doesn't lend itself to a great Olympics like Paris or London. Also not looking forward to baking in the sun in the Coliseum all day.
Homeless camps have proliferated far beyond Skid Row.
You haven't been here recently, have you?
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njrunx wrote:
By 2028, Los Angeles will be 110 degrees in the summer. Good luck watching the events!
the next wanjiru will be unleashed that summer
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Casey Wasserman, grandson of Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, is at the helm. So yeah, perhaps not the best start.
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njrunx wrote:
By 2028, Los Angeles will be 110 degrees in the summer. Good luck watching the events!
High today is 87;equals statistical average for the date. But don't let facts allow your sweaty trembling fingers to release the pearls.
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Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:
They'll probably just pay a money hungry hotel owner a million plus bucks to house the homeless there by that point. Then the homeless degrade the hotel rapidly and it shuts down completely, eventually demolished vacant building filled with dead roaches and bed bugs. They do that in other places already. That's what the left likes to do with your hard earned tax money.
And what would you do? Fly around with a jet pack and flame thrower to cleanse the streets?
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One thing I noticed while watching the marathon is France still has statues/monuments for dead white males.
USA tears down monuments to its dead white males.
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TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
It’s going to take four years to clear out all the homeless and remove all the graffiti.
Sounds like they should all win an island vacation to Catalina for the summer.
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la area resident wrote:
One thing I noticed while watching the marathon is France still has statues/monuments for dead white males.
USA tears down monuments to its dead white males.
No. The statues taken down were those put up to celebrate separatists from the U.S.
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analogkid wrote:
la area resident wrote:
One thing I noticed while watching the marathon is France still has statues/monuments for dead white males.
USA tears down monuments to its dead white males.
No. The statues taken down were those put up to celebrate separatists from the U.S.
Washington was a seaparatist from Britain, not the U.S.
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Why all the tiresome LA (and by extension, California) hate? As other posters mention above, the L.A. Games in 1984 were a surprising success. In fact, it remains (at least until we receive the Paris Games data) the only Olympics to ever actually turn a profit.
Focusing on the undeniable, ongoing problems downtown turns a blind eye to world-class sporting venues available throughout Southern California. The weather is certainly no worse (especially humidity-wise) compared to Tokyo, Paris, and other Olympic locations.
No American city but Los Angeles has hosted two Olympic Games. And no state (California) and region (Southern California) has produced more Olympians. It's not even close. (For example, of the American universities who have produced the most Olympic medalists in history, the top four by a mile are USC, Stanford, UCLA, and Cal-Berkeley). There is a very proud tradition of representing ALL of America in the Golden State.
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only thing that worries me is the coliseum is in a bad area, open season on tourists. other than that, the venues are spread out and there's no reason to stumble upon a homeless encampment. when venice beach is crowded you don't notice them. some events are actually in oklahoma city, and others are down in long beach. SoFi stadium and the new Inuit Dome will be nothing the Olympics has ever seen before. god bless los angeles - don't come here if you don't like our lifestyle!
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concerned tourist wrote:
Culture less soulless wrote:.
Also the Black/mixed race football fans are in for a surprise with the US police force.
what do you mean?
You know exactly what he means. The police in the US have a long history of killing innocent black men
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Fataiap$-7 wrote:
Got to hand in to Paris. Great job. This place is safe, clean, no homeless, transportation is amazing, and police don’t F around.
Unlike many Europeans, I actually like Americans, but you guys do have a rather limited understanding of life outside of the USA. Your country isn’t as bad as you think it is.
Thousands of homeless people have been removed from Paris and the surrounding area as part of a “clean-up” operation ahead of the Olympic Games, campaigners say.
Those moved on include asylum seekers, as well as families and children already in a precarious and vulnerable situation, the collective Le Revers de la Médaille, which represents 90 associations, said in a report released on Monday.
Police were also cracking down on sex workers and drug addicts, removing them from their usual networks in which they could receive vital healthcare and support, it added. “The Île-de-France region has been emptied of some of the people that the powers that be consider undesirable,” it concluded.
The collective said expulsions and the dismantling of tent camps in and around the city had intensified since April last year, and 12,545 people had been moved in the last 13 months.100 -
The homeless will be rounded up in May/June and then bussed to Las Vegas. They will be induced with cash payments and then housed in old casino/hotels that are underused or scheduled for demolition until after the Olympics are over. After the property owners have been paid, the homeless will be evicted and many will elect to stay in Vegas. Kind of hard to cross 300 miles of mostly desert without transportation.
There were no incidents around The Coliseum in 1984 despite the surround area being very rough back then. LAPD and Homeland Security will have things locked down to ensure that tourists are not hassled or victimized.
CalTrans will have the freeways looking spiffy and the graffiti cleaned up along the roadways. Expect a new state law in 2026/2027 that makes tagging a felony offense punishable by 7-10 years in prison. To "deter terrorism", Los Angeles and the feds will have installed the world's most advanced video/biometric surveillance system throughout the city. Thanks to social media data collection, and cell phones, catching tagging offenders (and others) will be pretty easy and then LAPD gets to keep the whole thing afterwards to use as they wish. Smile, Angelenos! You will always be on camera in public.
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Open up a free zone in a part of the city far away from the festivities where they can use drugs, do prostitution and contain it there.
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la area resident wrote:
One thing I noticed while watching the marathon is France still has statues/monuments for dead white males.
USA tears down monuments to its dead white males.
Only the traitorous ones, bromigo
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