LA 2028 Olympics: Investing in Youth Sports

The host city of the upcoming Summer Olympics has officially applied to the Organizing Committee of the 34th Olympic Games for $33.1 million (30.9 million euros) to support the "PlayLA" project from 2025 to 2026. This is a crucial move aimed at increasing the participation of young people in the years leading up to the Olympics. As a positive legacy project of the 2028 Olympics, the program, which initially started with only the swimming event, has experienced a difficult beginning. It was severely hampered by the global outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, as everything has retur