Los Angeles 2028

[Bear]

The ticketing service provider has been announced:

"AXS, a leading company in sports and live entertainment ticketing, and CTS EVENTIM, a leading international provider of ticketing services and live entertainment, have been appointed the Official Ticketing Service Provider for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

"They will make their existing online storefronts (axs.com and eventim.com) available for the global distribution of Games tickets, which will also be sold through LA28's own website."

https://la28.org/language-masters/en/newsroom/la28-announces-ticketing-service-provider.html

[Quaker2001]

12 minutes ago, Bear said:

The ticketing service provider has been announced:

"AXS, a leading company in sports and live entertainment ticketing, and CTS EVENTIM, a leading international provider of ticketing services and live entertainment, have been appointed the Official Ticketing Service Provider for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

"They will make their existing online storefronts (axs.com and eventim.com) available for the global distribution of Games tickets, which will also be sold through LA28's own website."

https://la28.org/language-masters/en/newsroom/la28-announces-ticketing-service-provider.html

As long as it's not Ticketmaster.  Can only imagine the kinds of fees they would try to tack on if they were in charge

[baron-pierreIV]

4 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

As long as it's not Ticketmaster.  Can only imagine the kinds of fees they would try to tack on if they were in charge

Yeah. but LA28 & the new Surcharge law would not have allowed excessive and hidden fees.  Seems like Eventim is involved with Paris 2024 and will probably handle 28's international orders.  AXS, which I've never heard of, looks like will handle domestic sales.  Good distribution of duties so far.  

[Bear]

Mayor Bass, along with a delegation consisting of LA City council members, the CEO of the LA Metro, and LA84 + LA28 members are headed to Paris right now in order to discuss preparations for Paris 2024 with Mayor Hidalgo and other representatives of the region. These discussions will be held to help LA better prepare for the Games.

The things that will be discussed include business development, housing development, and green transportation and infrastructure initiatives.

Bass has also been formally invited to participate in the flag handover ceremony.

https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-announces-international-delegation-prepare-los-angeles-host-olympic-and-paralympic

[Quaker2001]

TSX REPORT: Wasserman reveals multiple LA28 venue moves

[Bear]

i am once again thanking the olympics for allowing our infrastructure to be financed, upgraded, and expanded faster than it would usually take:

https://www.laweekly.com/nearly-1-billion-in-federal-funding-going-toward-prep-for-2028-olympics/

if there's one positive that's come out of being an olympic host city so far (besides the increased access to sport and para-sport for kids of course) is that our public transit has significantly gotten better in the last few years... i'm pretty sure that if we weren't hosting in 2028, most of the projects would be delayed or canceled or something.

[Bear]

aaaand +1 more event that will likely be added to the programme: https://www.nbcsports.com/golf/news/olympics-closer-to-adding-mixed-team-event-in-golf-for-los-angeles-in-2028

[stryker]

Intuit Dome for basketball makes sense, but is one venue enough? Seems like a secondary venue would still be needed. Galen Center at USC maybe? I know the LA Convention Center was listed as a secondary basketball venue but given the trouble Paris had proposing basketball in a Convention center it's hard to see LA begin able to do the same. Perhaps move gymnastics to Crypto.com Arena and use the Forum for volleyball and move badminton to the Convention center? Just speculating.

[baron-pierreIV]

1 hour ago, stryker said:

Intuit Dome for basketball makes sense, but is one venue enough? Seems like a secondary venue would still be needed. Galen Center at USC maybe? I know the LA Convention Center was listed as a secondary basketball venue but given the trouble Paris had proposing basketball in a Convention center it's hard to see LA begin able to do the same. Perhaps move gymnastics to Crypto.com Arena and use the Forum for volleyball and move badminton to the Convention center? Just speculating.

I think it would be hard to move Volleyball out of Anaheim because the 2 US National teams are housed there and supported by the City of Anaheim.  Intuit can handle all of basketball.  They could move gymnastics to Crypto which could leave Forum for Boxing as it looks like it may return under World Boxing.  (Or take Boxing down to the Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State.  I think they could get a 6K capacity for it at the Pyramid.  Don't know what the Anaheim Conv Center could offer for Boxing if they placed it there.)  

[Bear]

15 hours ago, stryker said:

Intuit Dome for basketball makes sense, but is one venue enough?

yes, Tokyo 2020 only used one venue for basketball, so it's possible to use only one venue

[Quaker2001]

15 hours ago, stryker said:

Intuit Dome for basketball makes sense, but is one venue enough? Seems like a secondary venue would still be needed. Galen Center at USC maybe? I know the LA Convention Center was listed as a secondary basketball venue but given the trouble Paris had proposing basketball in a Convention center it's hard to see LA begin able to do the same. Perhaps move gymnastics to Crypto.com Arena and use the Forum for volleyball and move badminton to the Convention center? Just speculating.

10 minutes ago, Bear said:

yes, Tokyo 2020 only used one venue for basketball, so it's possible to use only one venue

They changed the format of the basketball tournaments after Rio when added 3x3 for Tokyo.  Used to be the men's and women's tournaments were both 2 pools of 6 teams each.  Now it's 3 pools of 4 teams each.  So for pool play, there are 4 total games per day rather than 6.  Much easier to manage with just 1 venue.

[Bear]

Look what was spotted in Toulouse!

Looks amazing, I wonder if it'll be used to bring Team USA to Paris (or the Olympic + Paralympic flags back home)

[FYI]

The irony that it's an Airbus plane, from the 2024 host country, & not a Boeing plane, from the 2028 host country. I know business is business, but still find it ironic.

[Bear]

37 minutes ago, FYI said:

The irony that it's an Airbus plane, from the 2024 host country, & not a Boeing plane, from the 2028 host country. I know business is business, but still find it ironic.

well i wouldn't blame them for going with Airbus these days...

[yoshi]

There's much less chance of a door landing in someone's front garden if you use Airbus 

[baron-pierreIV]

2 hours ago, Bear said:

Look what was spotted in Toulouse!

Looks amazing, I wonder if it'll be used to bring Team USA to Paris (or the Olympic + Paralympic flags back home)

That "A" in the logo doesn't come off too strongly.  And I don't see the Olympic rings -- so what the hell would LA28 be if you didn't know about it?? 

[krow]

i think it's weird for a brand to co-opt an olympic logo anyway.

[baron-pierreIV]

21 hours ago, Bear said:

I wonder if it'll be used to bring Team USA to Paris (or the Olympic + Paralympic flags back home)

Nope.  Ever since that tragic crash in/outside Brussels in 1961 which all but wiped out the entire US Figure Skating team on their way to the World Championships in, I think it was Prague -- they try NOT to book large US sports teams--as do prominent and moneyed families--on the same flights.  In other words, spread out the actuarial (fatality) numbers.  But it could take and bring a small ceremonial number, and as you said, maybe with the flags -- but certainly NOT the entire teams (many of whom might still travel around Europe after the Games). 

Edited March 26 by baron-pierreIV

[Bear]

2 hours ago, baron-pierreIV said:

Nope.  Ever since that tragic crash in/outside Brussels in 1961 which all but wiped out the entire US Figure Skating team on their way to the World Championships in, I think it was Prague -- they try NOT to book large US sports teams--as do prominent and moneyed families--on the same flights.  In other words, spread out the actuarial (fatality) numbers.  But it could take and bring a small ceremonial number, and as you said, maybe with the flags -- but certainly NOT the entire teams (many of whom might still travel around Europe after the Games). 

i obviously know it wont be the entire team, an A350-900 does not have the capacity to hold all of Team USA. I just imagine it'll be one of the planes used for transport like the other Delta plane with the Team USA livery that was used for Beijing 2022:

https://www.airline-suppliers.com/delta-flies-team-usa-to-olympic-winter-games-beijing-2022-on-first-ever-team-usa-only-charter/

"Team USA athletes typically travel based on their individual schedules and do not travel as a team to the Games, Delta is taking full advantage of this unique opportunity to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

[Bear]

Just now, Bear said:

i obviously know it wont be the entire team, an A350-900 does not have the capacity to hold all of Team USA. I just imagine it'll be one of the planes used for transport like the other Delta plane with the Team USA livery that was used for Beijing 2022:

https://www.airline-suppliers.com/delta-flies-team-usa-to-olympic-winter-games-beijing-2022-on-first-ever-team-usa-only-charter/

"Team USA athletes typically travel based on their individual schedules and do not travel as a team to the Games, Delta is taking full advantage of this unique opportunity to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

wow that submitted on its own, i was not finished typing yet.

anyways i was going to add that perhaps they'll do a repeat of this since it'll be Delta's first time (since the United days anyways) serving Team USA for the Summer games.

[Quaker2001]

15 minutes ago, Bear said:

i obviously know it wont be the entire team, an A350-900 does not have the capacity to hold all of Team USA. I just imagine it'll be one of the planes used for transport like the other Delta plane with the Team USA livery that was used for Beijing 2022:

https://www.airline-suppliers.com/delta-flies-team-usa-to-olympic-winter-games-beijing-2022-on-first-ever-team-usa-only-charter/

"Team USA athletes typically travel based on their individual schedules and do not travel as a team to the Games, Delta is taking full advantage of this unique opportunity to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

Beijing 2022 was an exception because of all of the quarantine rules.  So it made sense for the athletes to travel in together then as opposed to all coming in as individuals.  We're not likely to see anything like that again

[Bear]

1 hour ago, Quaker2001 said:

Beijing 2022 was an exception because of all of the quarantine rules.  So it made sense for the athletes to travel in together then as opposed to all coming in as individuals.  We're not likely to see anything like that again

yes i also added in my follow-up comment (because GB still doesn't let us edit comments ) that maybe they'll consider doing it one more time to mark Delta's first trip for a summer Games under the new sponsorship, it would be nice for the athletes

[Guilga]

22 hours ago, baron-pierreIV said:

That "A" in the logo doesn't come off too strongly.  And I don't see the Olympic rings -- so what the hell would LA28 be if you didn't know about it?? 

 

5 hours ago, krow said:

i think it's weird for a brand to co-opt an olympic logo anyway.

That's the novelty of LA logo actually. Due to being dynamic, the A really could be anything, which might open a Pandora box of brand integration. Of course, this plane does not have it's A stand out much, likely because of the blueish purple background, but if it was white behind that corporate logo made Olympic... Well, kinda. As baron Said, that's no rings in there but I think it might be assumed that you will catch it by context of it's use anyway.

Now, imagine if every single sponsor of theirs gets an A. Imagine if you will have to guess them in the sponsors roll just because they went with the As. Honestly, this is tame compared to what that can morph into... Pictograms, windows into the games locales, maybe even the mascot. We could get so many of them that we could get sick of the idea before the games even started, but I feel that their welcome will not be overstayed even if they get mass produced.

3 minutes ago, Bear said:

 

 

[baron-pierreIV]

2 hours ago, Bear said:

i was going to add that perhaps they'll do a repeat of this since it'll be Delta's first time (since the United days anyways) serving Team USA for the Summer games.

Actually for the Atlanta Centennial Games, Delta already got the Airline Partner category while United held on to its contract with the USOC.  How could Delta not have been a major sponsor for the Games right in its backyard. 

Now, I guess Delta has edged out United for the same category for LA 28.  

[baron-pierreIV]

49 minutes ago, Guilga said:

 

That's the novelty of LA logo actually. Due to being dynamic,

 

The DYNAMIC shtick works only if you're on the computer.  Otherwise, for flat surfaces like that, print, the torch, the medals, the uniforms, the bunting -- they will have to choose one.  And that's where I disagree with LA's choice, with 5 or 6 different "A"s it is confusing to people who look for consistency.  To me it's a turn-off that I have to deal with a few different "A"s.  It doesn't always work.  Seems like a DUMB Tony Estanguet move.