Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics
San Francisco Chronicle,
by
Joe Mathews
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/28/2025 11:58:11 AM
This show must not go on.
It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them.
Not because Angelenos don’t love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games. In normal times, the city’s incomparable international connections, entertainment assets and sports facilities would make us the perfect host for what LA 28 chair Casey Wasserman calls “the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world.”
But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.
This event is now too dangerous for California.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 7/28/2025 12:05:49 PM (No. 1983608)
The best reason to cancel LA 2028 is that the city state does not have $$ to put it on.
32 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
chagrined 7/28/2025 12:15:01 PM (No. 1983612)
If the 2028 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, the United States will be embarrassed worldwide. I'm sure the loathsome democrats will immediately blame President Trump, but what else is new?
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/28/2025 12:17:54 PM (No. 1983615)
PEDs are banned in the Olympics, but apparently not in newsrooms, because this is obviously TDS on Steroids.
22 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 7/28/2025 12:26:58 PM (No. 1983621)
Typical leftist opposite reasoning and pure lies. All the reasons they list to cancel are why the show will be planned and go off perfectly.
11 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/28/2025 12:27:09 PM (No. 1983622)
I agree and think every reason he states is valid. LA and Californistan should do the right thing and cancel the Olympics. Break the contract! Show the world that this is Californistan's finest hour.
14 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/28/2025 12:30:36 PM (No. 1983623)
Naw, I want to see Las Angeles adapt and overcome their problems and put on a glorious Olympics! (With smirk on my face and tongue firmly planted in cheek.)
#2, At this point, I think the rest of the world will sympathize with the non-West Coast US. After all, what family doesn't have a relative like LA?
13 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 7/28/2025 12:32:27 PM (No. 1983624)
They are terrified for the world to see how much Los Angeles has improved since President Trump secured the border and started deporting illegal aliens. The crime rate in LA is way down along with less traffic.
13 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/28/2025 12:35:59 PM (No. 1983626)
I stopped reading at "lawless US regime". I agree with #1.... the money that will be spent on the Olympics should FIRST be allocated to helping their citizens recover from the fires. (I know it won't be though as that has never been THE PLAN.)
23 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
varkdriver 7/28/2025 12:36:57 PM (No. 1983627)
During the Paris Olympics in 2024, the athletes had to dodge floating dung in the Seine. Here in Los Angeles, the marathon runners will have an added difficulty factor while dodging piles of human dung along the 26.2 mile course. Faster, stronger, higher!
20 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Luandir 7/28/2025 12:57:22 PM (No. 1983637)
I assume this pile of equine excrement was posted only to show what level of TDS is rampant in California newsrooms.
21 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/28/2025 12:57:56 PM (No. 1983638)
The Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong with this one.
Frankly, Los Angeles shouldn't have won the bid to host the 2028 Olympics. The city has been a basket case for many years, and has gone steadily down the tubes since the Rodney King riots.
16 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
franco 7/28/2025 12:58:38 PM (No. 1983639)
As the occidental world's elite enforce cultural suicide on its native populations via "replacements" from third-world hell-holes, it is becoming apparent that the only countries in the world with safe large cities having enough amenities to host an Olympics are in far east Asia. LA 2028 is a third world hellhole in the making and bears no resemblance to the LA of 1984 (let alone 1932). Problem for the Olympics is that Asians haven't lost their common sense and will quickly realize that hosting the Olympics is a burden they'd rather not bear. Ultimately, the Olympics will have to be scaled down in size so as to "fit" into safer mid-sized urban areas... or else go out of business altogether.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/28/2025 1:08:14 PM (No. 1983641)
This author is a nut job. No wonder CA is in the shape it’s in, if there are guys like these on the loose.
19 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
cThree 7/28/2025 1:23:10 PM (No. 1983648)
AOC led the "successful" campaign to keep Amazon jobs out of New York. Lefties led the "successful" campaign to keep the MLB All-Star game out of Atlanta.
Joe Mathews here is simply following the same high-minded, self-righteous gameplan.
I'd be content for the Olympics to find a home in a more agreeable state. Texas, say. The left, exampled here by Mr. Mathews, is far too stupid to be in charge of any good thing, especially something likely to show pride of country with flags and frequent airing of the National Anthem.
Sheesh. As if Biden didn't do enough to disgrace the name Joe.
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/28/2025 1:43:39 PM (No. 1983655)
I agree that the Olympics should be canceled in L.A. (currently a communist hellhole)...and moved to a real American city, like Dallas. Or Orlando. If it stays in L.A. you know we're going to have to bail them out financially anyway, so let's just cut the crap now and save all the accounting mumbo-jumbo.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/28/2025 2:19:28 PM (No. 1983668)
Read the article.
"National Special Security Events, like the Olympics, require host cities to let federal agencies take the lead during the Games. For the 2028 Olympics, an agreement, which took effect last year, puts the U.S. Secret Service in charge of security, with support from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
All those agencies work for President Donald Trump, who has launched a war against California that includes deploying troops and secret federal police in our neighborhoods. California leaders have righteously demanded that immigration raids end and the troops leave. But those demands are incompatible with the Olympics agreement, which gives these agencies the power to surge security personnel into Los Angeles."
This is ultra-liberal anti-Trump pro-illegal immigrants San Francisco opining that Trump is going to use the Olympics to attack California because of the security required for the Olympics.
You guys are letting your CDS cloud your vision.
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/28/2025 2:20:25 PM (No. 1983669)
Suits me. It won’t hurt the athletes, they will just compete at the new venue. It will, however, hurt the local economy. Small businesses, restaurants, vendors. Go for it, LA. Follow this moron and blow millions in. Revenue.
5 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/28/2025 2:29:14 PM (No. 1983675)
FTA: (at the end for his bio)
Joe Mathews
Syndicated columnist
Joe Mathews is Connecting California columnist and California editor at Zócalo Public Square, an Ideas Exchange that is a project of New America and Arizona State University.
He brings up every talking point he's been fed by CNN and MSNBC types over the past few years.
The good news from the article, the Secret Service takes over security for the Olympics based on an agreement signed a year ago (prior to Trump becoming POTUS) which means it will likely be firm security for everyone.
As far as Trump "taking over LA" he only sent U.S. troops to protect the Federal buildings which ensured another Portland situation didn't take place which the City of LA didn't seem to be bothered by.
10 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/28/2025 2:37:01 PM (No. 1983680)
Watch the Democraps STEAL all the land burned up in the LA Fires. They will then build the Olympic Facilities and to Hades with the property owners.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 7/28/2025 3:57:11 PM (No. 1983710)
The Olympics really lost their allure for me way back when they changed the schedule from every 4 years to alternating summer-winter every 2 years.
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/28/2025 5:49:04 PM (No. 1983736)
Totally agree. Without a huge infusion of federal cash (American taxpayer money) LA will still be a violent garbage dump in 2028. I would be ashamed to have the rest of the world see what Mayor Bigmouth Bass has done to this once-great city.
6 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/28/2025 9:59:14 PM (No. 1983800)
Disgusting Leftist reasoning... I couldn't finish this article.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 7/29/2025 6:31:53 AM (No. 1983868)
The athletes will likely have some not so flattering stories to tell about LA after the Olympics.
At least, those who survive.
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