Los Angeles Ramps Up Preparations For Summer Olympics

Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, June 2, 2025…

• In Los Angeles, the clock is ticking down, faster and faster it seems, to July 14th, 2028. That’s the opening day of the Summer Olympics Games, followed shortly by the Paralympic Games. And as that date draws closer, the scale of the challenges that face Los Angeles to get ready is starting to sink in.
• A transgender female athlete took home two gold medals and one silver medal at this weekend’s statewide track and field championships held in Clovis. It marked a rare moment for high school sports in California. But not everyone is celebrating.

How Prepared Is LA For The 2028 Olympics?

We’re a little more than three years from the start of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. And organizers are ramping up preparations for the huge event.

“The Olympics in L.A. will be the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world. It is a level of complexity and scale that is unimaginable. It is the operational equivalent of seven Super Bowls a day for 30 days,” said Casey Wasserman, chairman of LA28, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee.

The price tag for the Games tops $7 billion.  Organizers are hoping it will be covered by a combination of corporate sponsorships, broadcast deals and ticket sales. In most host cities, the price tag for the Olympics often exceeds estimates. But organizers in Los Angeles believe they have an advantage – the city already has a number of state-of-the-art stadiums and arenas that will be used in competition.

Transgender Track And Field Athlete Makes History At State Championship

A transgender female student athlete competing at California’s high school track and field championship finals took home first place in the high jump and triple jump, and second place in the long jump.

It marked a historic moment at the 2025 CIF Track and Field Championships held on Saturday at Buchanan High School in Clovis. There has not been a known transgender student reach the state finals in the competitions until this year. The participation in the track and field championships by Jurupa Valley High School junior AB Hernandez has in some ways pushed the limits on how the broader participation of transgender student athletes in sports can look.

It forced the state agency that oversees high school sports to grapple with how to address when a transgender student athlete participates in games, but the agency did so in the face of heavy criticism over the fairness of allowing a transgender female to compete against non transgender females.

The championships even drew national attention, including from President Trump – who threatened to withhold federal funding from California over the student’s participation in the games. The federal Department of Justice also announced it would investigate whether California was violating the landmark civil rights laws known as Title IX. The investigation centers on a state law passed in 2013 that allows students who meet certain requirements to compete on sports teams that reflect their gender identity, rather than their biological sex.