Over 300 Olympic athletes gather at Coliseum to launch LA28 ticket registration

Over 300 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, including Nadia Comaneci, Apolo Ohno, Bart Conner and Cullen Jones, gathered Tuesday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to promote Wednesday's ticket registration launch for the 2028 Summer Games, Independent.co reported. Athletes from 28 Olympics since 1960 joined Janet Evans in a countdown to light the Olympic Cauldron.

Janet Evans, the Olympic champion swimmer and chief athlete officer for the LA28 organising committee, said: “LA is committed to delivering an athlete-centered games and that can only happen if athletes are actually at the center of our planning.” Apolo Ohno said the gathering felt like a homecoming: “I walked in and I literally saw like 50 of my friends that I'd grown up in the Olympic training center with for many years,” he said.

“I haven't seen some of these people for 10 years or more.” Cullen Jones said organisers have “the athlete voice in the areas that really need to be heard,” and Conner noted that with the majority of venues already built in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, organisers can focus on competitors.

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