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LA28 unveils details of ticket resale program. LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - With the first ticket sales of the Olympic Games about to begin, LA28 today announced details of its ticket resale program. LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Games, said it will be offering verified resale tickets starting in 2027 through its official "Secondary Ticket Marketplace," with the help from its partners, AXS and Eventim. Other verified resale platforms such as Ticketmaster and Sports Illustrated tickets will also offer resale tickets. "With millions around the globe registered for the LA28 Ticket Draw - and as excitement for LA28 continues to grow, we want fans to have the information they need to shop with confidence as we approach the first ticket drop," Reynold Hoover, LA28 CEO, said in a statement. "While LA28's resale platforms will not launch until 2027, having a variety of platforms was critical to providing fans multiple points of access to verified tickets, and we're thrilled to add Ticketmaster and Sports Illustrated Tickets to our resale program," Hoover added. LA28 fans are expected to be notified by email, starting Tuesday and continuing through April 7, if they have been assigned a time slot, according to LA28. Ticket sales will begin in April. "We're proud to join forces with the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to help ensure fans can experience these incredible athletes from around the world," said David Lane, Sports Illustrated Tickets CEO, in a statement. "As a Sports Illustrated company, we understand how important it is for the Games and the athletes to have fans in the stands to witness history. Our team is honored and excited to be part of these historic Games," Lane added. Ticket sales for the Paralympic Games will begin in 2027.

Powering LA28: energy, infrastructure & the future of Los Angeles. Matilda Bathurst | March 23, 2026 During The Games Week at USC, leaders from LADWP, Southern California Edison, LA28 and the U.S. Green Building Council outlined how Los Angeles plans to supply reliable, low-carbon power and water to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The second panel of The Games Week (2-6 March, 2026), hosted by the Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi, focused on the systems that make large-scale events possible: electricity, water and the infrastructure that binds them together. Addressing these interconnected challenges highlights the critical role of civil and environmental engineering in advancing resilient, sustainable infrastructure for cities worldwide. The discussion was moderated by Kelly Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC Viterbi and former assistant director for energy systems innovation at the U.S. government's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Sanders' research centers on reducing the environmental impacts of providing energy and water, identifying tensions between climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, and anticipating the effects of climate change on energy systems. As such, she is ideally placed to assess how to use the deadline of 2028 to accelerate long-term infrastructure transformation - a question tackled from multiple angles by the featured panelists: Janisse Quiñones, former CEO and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP); Holly West, head of energy for LA28; Vik Trehan, vice president of transmission and substation operations at Southern California Edison; and Stephanie Hallinan, associate director of U.S market transformation & development at the U.S. Green Building Council. Coordinating utilities across a complex region. LADWP, the municipal utility of the City of Los Angeles providing water and electricity, serves approximately four million customers and operates the largest municipal utility in the United States. For LA28, its role extends beyond routine service. How to coordinate power and water delivery across dozens of simultaneous venues in a region that is already managing rapid electrification and aggressive decarbonization targets? Quiñones described the creation of a Games Energy Council that brings together LADWP, Southern California Edison and other regional utilities to align planning and reliability standards across jurisdictions. "We are the coordinating utility that ensures we're all doing the same thing to provide reliable, clean and resilient power during the Games," she explained, emphasizing that the effort is regional rather than city-bound. Equally significant is the establishment of the first Games Water Council in Olympic history. Several venues will require temporary aquatic infrastructure in facilities not originally designed for that purpose. Coordinating water supply and system resilience at those sites adds another layer of engineering complexity. These preparations are unfolding alongside LADWP's commitment to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2035. The utility is currently at 64 percent clean energy. Maintaining reliability during a global event, while integrating increasing levels of renewable generation, further compresses ambitious timelines designed to outpace the impact of climate change. Building backup systems at unprecedented scale. As discussed in the first panel of The Games Week, the operational model of LA28 relies heavily on existing venues rather than large-scale new construction. That strategy reduces the long-term financial risk associated with capital-intensive builds, but it shifts the burden onto temporary infrastructure and operational systems. The engineering challenge lies not in building new permanent infrastructure, but in designing systems that are robust, interoperable and removable without leaving stranded assets behind. As Head of Energy for LA28, Holly West is responsible for end-to-end energy delivery at every Games facility. Her team receives grid power from regional utilities, installs layers of redundancy (robust backup systems added to the power setup) and aims to ensure uninterrupted service to broadcast systems, security operations, ticketing platforms and venue logistics. "This will be the largest temporary power overlay in the history of the Games," West noted, underscoring the scale of temporary distribution, backup generation and uninterruptible power supply systems that must be integrated into facilities never designed for continuous, simultaneous operations during LA28. A grid in transition. Southern California Edison's preparations intersect with California's broader energy transition; LA28 serves as a near-term performance benchmark for infrastructure that must ultimately support California's 2045 goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity. Trehan oversees 24/7 transmission and substation operations in a grid that is absorbing growing volumes of renewable generation. Integrating solar and wind reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but it also introduces variability that must be balanced in real time. "This is a significant moment in history for energy infrastructure," Trehan told the audience, framing the current period as a pivotal phase in grid modernization rather than a routine upgrade cycle. In advance of LA28, Edison is accelerating projects that strengthen transmission serving Games venues, conducting preemptive inspections and deploying sensors capable of detecting anomalies before they escalate. Machine learning and predictive analytics are becoming standard tools in maintaining reliability within a decarbonizing system. Embedding sustainability standards. Hallinan broadened the discussion beyond grid operations to the policy frameworks that shape how infrastructure is designed and evaluated. Representing the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), she described how certification programs, advocacy and education work together to embed sustainability criteria into development decisions. "We aim to integrate sustainability via three different branches: advocacy, education and products," Hallinan explained. "Our goal is to meet people where they are and help move the market forward." Through programs such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification and policy engagement at federal, state and local levels, USGBC helps translate environmental goals into measurable standards for buildings and infrastructure. Hallinan noted that the organization's advocacy work has also helped preserve widely used programs such as ENERGY STAR, ensuring that tools for improving energy performance remain available nationwide. For events such as LA28, these frameworks influence how venues are retrofitted and how sustainability outcomes are measured after the Games conclude. In that sense, Hallinan suggested that the most durable legacy of the Olympics may come not only from physical infrastructure, but from the standards that guide how cities build and operate it. Infrastructure as legacy. In short, the Games function as both deadline and catalyst - compressing decision cycles while clarifying the need for durable, low-carbon infrastructure. The panel underscored that LA28 is not an isolated event layered onto a static city. It is unfolding within an energy system already undergoing rapid transformation and within a region confronting wildfire risk, heat stress and growing electricity demand from electrification. Next, we'll be discussing how LA's transportation systems will withstand the strain of moving millions of visitors across the city - could this be the turning point when LA shifts from the city of cars to a city celebrated for public transportation? 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Los Angeles asks for investigation into LA28 Olympics chief over Epstein ties. 2 hours ago Sareen HabeshianLos Angeles, California The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously approved a measure urging the Olympics committee to investigate LA 2028 chief Casey Wasserman over ties to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman is facing mounting calls to leave the post after disclosures surfaced showing that he flew on Epstein's jet and exchanged flirtatious emails with the late financier's jailed associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2003. The resolution, while not enforceable and largely symbolic, displays the simmering discomfort in the Summer Games' next host city over Wasserman. The sports and entertainment executive has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and has expressed regret for the exchanges, which are from decades ago. The city council's resolution, adopted in a 12-0 vote, expresses "concern regarding the potential conflict between the Olympic movement's values and Casey Wasserman's association with the Epstein files". It calls for a "thorough and transparent" examination of Wasserman's involvement with Epstein. The LA28 executive committee announced last month that Wasserman would remain in his post after it hired an outside counsel to review any potential misconduct by Wasserman. "We found Mr Wasserman's relationship with Epstein and Maxwell did not go beyond what has already been publicly documented," the committee said at the time. After the city council vote on Friday, the board told the BBC in a statement that it had already made it's decision on Wasserman's future and was instead focused on moving forward with the Games. "With the Board's position on leadership established, LA28's focus remains on delivering a fiscally responsible, privately funded Games that protects taxpayers and benefits Los Angeles," the statement reads. "We are on track to deliver a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028." The vote came amid a litany of calls for his ousting, ranging from celebrities to politicians, including the city's mayor Karen Bass. An array of musicians and athletes represented by Wasserman's talent firm announced they would be splitting with the agency. In response, Wasserman announced he started the process of selling the major LA-based agency, noting he had "become a distraction". "I'm deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort," Wasserman wrote to the agency's 4,000 employees in the email, which was obtained by the BBC. He continued: "It's not fair to you, and it's not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about." Wasserman, who is one of many prominent figures included in the millions of Epstein documents, has not been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein's victims. The appearance of his name in the files does not imply criminal activity of any kind. The BBC has contacted his representatives about the city council vote. Wasserman has previously said he "deeply regrets" his discussions with Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for facilitating the sexual abuse of teenage girls by Epstein. He noted that his email exchanges with Maxwell "took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light," and he never had any business dealings with Epstein. More on this story: