It seems as though the Paris 2024 Games just started, and yet the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, August 11 is already upon us.
Among more artistic performances, the closing parade, the medal ceremony and the extinguishing of the Olympic flame, the Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony will see organizers pass the torch—figuratively and literally—to Los Angeles 2028 (stylized as LA28) organizers.
As such, the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, is expected to be on hand at the Closing Ceremony. And Hollywood daredevil Tom Cruise is rumored to be performing a dramatic stunt.
The Los Angeles Summer Olympics will be held from July 14 to July 30, 2028. The Paralympics are scheduled for August 22 to September 3, 2028.
If you’re already thinking about planning your trip to Tinseltown, here is everything we know so far about buying tickets for LA28.
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2028 Summer Olympics Location
The Summer 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles initially submitted a bid to host the 2024 Games, a process that soon left only itself and Paris as contenders. As a result, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to concurrently award the Games to Paris in 2024 and LA in 2028, with LA’s bid formally approved on September 13, 2017.
Los Angeles is the third three-time host city; London (1908, 1948 and 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024) are the others. LA28 will mark the United States’ fifth Summer Olympics and ninth Olympics overall.
It is the first time the Summer Olympics will be held in the U.S. since Atlanta 1996.
LA28 Venue Locations
Like Paris 2024, Los Angeles plans to use a record number of existing structures to host Olympic events.
In fact, while Paris built only two new venues to host events—Port de La Chapelle Area in the 18th arrondissem*nt and the Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis—LA won’t build any.
Of the 80-plus venues that will host Olympic events in LA, only a few have been publicly announced.
The Opening Ceremony will be held at SoFi Stadium—and potentially partly at L.A. Memorial Coliseum as well.
L.A. Memorial Coliseum will host track and field. SoFi Stadium will host swimming—yes, swimming, having shared renderings of a temporary pool that will be built out.
LA28’s initial bid had the Rose Bowl and BMO Stadium hosting soccer.
LA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium will hold diving and the Galen Center will host badminton. The newly built Intuit Dome in Inglewood, which will become the Los Angeles Clippers’ primary stadium, will host basketball.
Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center), the home of the Lakers, will host gymnastics. The L.A. Convention Center will host fencing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo and wrestling.
In Long Beach, Long Beach Arena will be the home of handball. Artistic swimming and water polo will go down at the Long Beach Convention Center. Marine Stadium will host canoe sprint and rowing. Belmont Shore will host sailing. Marathon swimming and the triathlon will also take place in Long Beach.
Some sports will take place slightly outside LA, including golf (Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades) and the Valley’s Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area (archery, BMX freestyle, BMX racing and skateboarding).
Then there’s canoe slalom and softball, which will take place in...Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for various logistical, financial and political reasons.
How To Buy LA28 Tickets
With the Milano Cortina Games coming up in February 2026, most information about upcoming Olympic and Paralympic ticket sales is focused on the Winter Games.
While we don’t know much about LA28 tickets yet, for Paris, fans could register for a ticket lottery about 18 months before the Games.
The Milano Cortina 2026 ticket lottery registration is now open, with ticket sales beginning in February—12 months before the Games. LA28 tickets, then, will likely go on sale in mid-2027, with registration opening about six months before that.
In February, sports and live entertainment ticketing companies AXS
The companies’ existing online storefronts (axs.com and eventim.com) will handle the global distribution of Games tickets, which will also be sold through LA28’s own website.
LA28 Ticket Prices
No specific information has been released yet on LA28 ticket prices. What fans found when purchasing tickets through the new, streamlined Paris 2024 ticketing system was that if they could get them early enough, the sessions released by Paris 2024 were largely affordable—starting at around 20 euros for qualifiers and 100 euros for finals.
However, purchasing tickets through the official resale platform—the first time one has existed for Olympics and Paralympics tickets—came at a premium cost. For example, on August 9, resale tickets for the men’s basketball gold medal match between the United States and France were listed at 1,087 euros.
Paris 2024 was also the first Games to offer a worldwide hospitalty program through On Location, which is also the official hospitality provider of the Milano Cortina 2026 and LA28 Games.
Through the hospitality program, fans can purchase tickets to a specific session plus daily access to a hospitality lounge or construct entire Olympics packages, including hotel stays.
Accordingly, these hospitality tickets could range from $150 for a session plus hospitality lounge day pass to $10,000 for an entire travel package.
On Location hospitality packages for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will go on sale in November 2024. A date for LA28 hospitality ticket sales has not yet been announced.
In terms of demand for LA28 tickets, Matt Ferrel, VP, Head of Growth at ticket marketplace TickPick, says the World Cup in 2026 will serve as a preview for what LA and the U.S. can expect during the 2028 Games.
“While the World Cup often draws a dedicated following of U.S. sports and soccer fans, the scale of demand and fanfare will likely mirror what we’ll experience in LA in 2028,” Ferrel said.
As the U.S. dominates the medal count in many of the most popular Olympic events—combined with the fact that most fans haven’t had a chance to see a Games in person since the U.S. last hosted them almost 30 years ago—Ferrel anticipates that “the chance to see these events live will undoubtedly drive unprecedented demand.”
