American Aquatic Olympians React to Los Angeles 2028 Awarding

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Photo Courtesy: LA 2024

It’s official: The International Olympic Committee has selected Los Angeles as the Host City of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The City of Angels has also hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984, spreading pride and tradition through American Olympic athletes for the last eight decades.

Some of these legendary athletes shared their feelings with the Official LA 2028 Organizing Committee:

Four-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming and LA 2028 Vice Chair, Janet Evans:

10-meter platform Olympic gold medalist, Laura Wilkinson:

Five-time Paralympic swimming gold medalist, Brad Snyder:

10-meter platform Olympic gold medalist, David Boudia

13-time Paralympic swimming gold medalist, Jessica Long

Two-time Olympic gold medalist, Summer Sanders:

10-k open water Olympic silver medalist, Haley Anderson

Olympic water polo silver medalist, Tony Azevedo

All Tweets courtesy of the Official LA 2028 Twitter handle @LA2028. 

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Swimming Pool Lovers
6 years ago

How curious :

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