2028 Summer Olympics

[Count Walewski]

I know it's early, but tickets are already on sale via ticket lottery. I put my name in and got a slot to buy tickets on April 15, 2026. Anyone else?

You can buy up to 12 tickets at this stage. Since I plan to go to the Olympics as a family of 3, that means I can pick 4 different events. Priority #1 is the gold medal baseball game at Dodger Stadium.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Too bad no preliminary rounds of football are coming here.  '84 Olympics had games at the Naval Academy stadium and the '96 games had some at RFK, including a full house for US/Portugal and a hopping Ghana vs Mexico.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Too bad no preliminary rounds of football are coming here.  '84 Olympics had games at the Naval Academy stadium and the '96 games had some at RFK, including a full house for US/Portugal and a hopping Ghana vs Mexico.

I'm hoping the new stadium is being built with dimensions that make hosting internationals and Olympics work. Gonna be awhile before the US host either a World Cup or a Summer Games again, so perhaps the new stadium will be obsolete by then. I think the facilities here may have had something to do with not getting any soccer.

[skippy1999]

I know it's early, but tickets are already on sale via ticket lottery. I put my name in and got a slot to buy tickets on April 15, 2026. Anyone else?

You can buy up to 12 tickets at this stage. Since I plan to go to the Olympics as a family of 3, that means I can pick 4 different events. Priority #1 is the gold medal baseball game at Dodger Stadium.

That is very cool!

[Count Walewski]

Alright well most of the good stuff either sold out before I had a chance to buy tickets or was prohibitively expensive, but I am now the proud owner of tickets to the following events:

• Baseball (prelims) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA
• Women’s Field Hockey (prelims) at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, CA
• Men’s Volleyball (prelims) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA
• Women’s Handball (prelims) at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, CA
• Women’s Archery (prelims) at Dignity Health Sports Park
• Men’s and Women’s Taekwondo (gold and bronze medal events) at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA

There will be a secondary market established around 2027 and I will surely try to pick up more. I'd like to see Track and Field at the LA Coliseum (I had a chance to purchase tickets for that today but only at $2,000/each or more), basketball, an water polo. Or, you know, just whatever is cheap and available.

Now comes the real challenge: figuring out how to make the logistics all work in the famously bad Southern California traffic!

[HalfSmokes]

We gave up. Archery for $150 a ticket was enough for us to not bother. The sports we wanted to see were all several hundred a ticket.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Does one need a ticket for the distance events (cycling road race, marathon, etc)? Cycling in particular is multiple circuits of a long course.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Does one need a ticket for the distance events (cycling road race, marathon, etc)? Cycling in particular is multiple circuits of a long course.

Phil Gaimon has  the cycling route. Lots of climbing. Not a loop course

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Mulholland Falls 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Mulholland Falls 

the tour of Cali had a climbing stage that had 2 cat 1s, with Mount Baldy being the finish and one road from a coastal area up before mount baldy. Was that Mulholland?

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

This course apparently runs along Mulholland Drive, which I believe was the site of the so-called "Mulholland Falls" in the movie of that name.  So expect Wout van Aert to take a shortcut 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

One of the things to love about Olympic cycling is it's about the only sport where Slovenia is the prohibitive favorite (assuming Tadej enters the field).

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Also...no race radio.  Which creates a lot of room for subterfuge and freakery (or just weird surprises, like Anna Kiesenhofer)