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President Trump Threatens Moving 2028 LA Olympics, World Cup Games  SwimSwam ‘He should check his geography.’ Mass. Democrats question Trump’s threat to pull World Cup matches from state.  The Boston Globe FIFA: U.S. govt determines World Cup city safety  ESPN President Trump can’t take away Boston World Cup matches, Mayor Wu says: “There’s no real threat”  CBS News Could Trump really move World Cup …

Donald Trump has again said he’d pressure Fifa to remove 2026 World Cup games from a host city on the basis of that city’s politics, with Boston becoming the third such city to come in for threats from the US president. Trump also said he would consider similar action against Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympics on account of potential …

Kenny Albert Returns as NBC Olympics’ Hockey Play-By-Play Announcer for Record 7th Winter Games Albert to Call Team USA Men’s and Women’s Games and Medal Rounds Alongside Eddie Olczyk (Men’s Analyst), AJ Mleczko (Women’s Analyst), Brian Boucher (Men’s “Inside the Glass”), Jen Botterill (Women’s “Inside the Glass”), and Kathryn Tappen (Reporter) Brendan Burke and Chris Vosters to Handle Hockey Play-by-Play …

After Paris sold a record 12 million tickets for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, the group organizing the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles is getting a head start on ticket sales. General registration for 2028 Olympics tickets will open in January 2026, more than a full year ahead of the ticket timeline used during the Paris Games, LA28 announced on …

U.S. sprinter Erriyon Knighton was handed a four-year ban on Friday as part of a doping case that will rule the 21-year-old out of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] Judges for the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld appeals made by the World Anti-Doping Agency and …

Enter the gates of Mar-a-Lago and you never know who you might run into. Guests at the sprawling Palm Beach estate — aka “the winter White House” — might brush past a foreign dignitary, a hopped-up tech titan, a mysterious Chinese billionaire or an overly Botoxed reality star. So when Casey Wasserman arrived for a private meeting in January, just …

Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers at the world’s biggest sporting event. Such was the lot of Rachael Gunn, AKA B-girl Raygun, who scored a memorable nul points for Australia at the Paris Olympics in 2024 with her routine topped off with …

In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production. Between 2022 and 2023, the People’s Republic installed over 276,000 robots throughout various industries, more than every other country on Earth combined. The machines are descending on Beijing this week, flocking from all corners of the world …

Aug 14, 2025, 10:06 AM ET Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums. The organizing committee announced the landmark deal Thursday, …

More than 40 years after L.A. produced the most financially successful Olympic Games in history, the 2028 Olympics will feature a new advertising revenue path for the Games. In an Olympic first, venues used for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics will be allowed to have corporate sponsor names after LA28 and the International Olympic Committee came to a tradition-bucking agreement …