{"id":151471,"date":"2026-01-27T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:26:12","slug":"will-there-be-an-olympic-boycott-in-2028-some-la-city-council-members-are-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/151471\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be an Olympic boycott in 2028? Some LA City Council members are worried"},"content":{"rendered":"

The killing of another protester by immigration agents in Minneapolis and President Trump’s ongoing threats against Greenland have fueled calls to boycott World Cup matches<\/a> held in the U.S. this summer \u2014 including in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The suggestion from a former FIFA president<\/a> and others led some in City Hall to worry that the coming 2028 Olympics could also get the cold shoulder.<\/p>\n

“We have a national government who is setting the stage for an environment where we could have a serious boycott,” Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said during a committee meeting on the Olympic Games Monday.<\/p>\n

John Harper, an executive with private Olympics organizing committee LA28, said that the organization had not discussed the possibility with the International Olympic Committee and that he was not concerned a boycott would take place in 2028.<\/p>\n

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City Council members did not seem convinced.<\/p>\n

“This conversation around FIFA, that’s just a forewarning,” said Councilmember Monica Rodriguez. “We need to have a Plan B.”<\/p>\n

The city of Los Angeles stands to lose if spectators or countries opt out of the 2028 Olympics. L.A. is the financial guarantor of the Games<\/a>, along with the state of California, and a significant boycott could affect the financial success of the massive sporting event.<\/p>\n

“We could be talking about a lot more irreparable harm, financially,” Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n

Fresh concerns about a boycott also come as anxiety in City Hall has been growing about the role the federal government will play at the Games.<\/p>\n

The City Council recently passed a motion<\/a> requesting that LA28 provide more details on the federal Olympics task force on security<\/a> that Trump announced last year, citing the ICE agents who have descended on the streets of Los Angeles and other U.S. cities<\/p>\n

The Olympics have been a frequent arena of political protest <\/a>over the decades, including in Los Angeles in 1984 when the Soviet Union led a boycott of the Games.<\/p>\n

“We never talk about the boycott of ’84, but there was a significant boycott,” Harris-Dawson said Monday. “It doesn’t mean that you can’t figure it out, but it also means we have to face it and face it directly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The killing of another protester by immigration agents in Minneapolis and President Trump’s ongoing threats against Greenland have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[74684,8862,5528,48,52,51,47,50,49,10012],"class_list":["post-151471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-boycott","tag-fifa","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}