By David Wharton | LA Times
The 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles are getting an extreme makeover, with organizers proposing changes that would shift basketball into the brand-new Intuit Dome, put a temporary swimming pool in the middle of SoFi Stadium and move softball games 1,300 miles east to Oklahoma City.
Revisions to the original master plan would incorporate Southern California’s newest sports venues, make thousands of additional tickets available to fans and generate an estimated $156 million in savings and revenue, the private LA28 committee said.
Friday’s announcement marks the first of several expected updates to a concept devised years ago, before the construction of SoFi and Intuit in Inglewood, when organizers first bid for the Games.
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