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THE NEXT EDITION

The 2028 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, and commonly known as Los Angeles 2028, is scheduled to take place from 14 July to 30 July 2028 in the United States of America. Los Angeles will be the host city, with various events also scheduled to be held at other cities spread across the greater Los Angeles area, plus two subsites in Oklahoma City. Los Angeles had originally bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. However, after multiple withdrawals that left only Los Angeles and Paris in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two remaining candidates; Paris displayed a preference for the 2024 Games, and Los Angeles agreed to host in 2028. This will mark the fifth Summer Olympics (first since Atlanta 1996), and ninth Olympics overall, to be hosted by the United States. Having previously hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984, Los Angeles becomes the third three-time host city after London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024), and the first non-European city to do so.

LOS ANGELES 2028
Games of the XXXIV Olympiad
July 14 - July 30, 2028

FIRST KOREAN GOLD MEDAL GOES TO JAPAN - The Berlin 1936 men's marathon, won by Sohn Kee-chung, was the first ever Olympic gold medal for Korea. However, during the time of the Games, Korea was a colony of Japan so the medal remains credited as Japan's first victory in the Olympic marathon. Sohn, who competed as members of Japanese team and had to use his Japanese name (Son Kitei), at the medal ceremony bowed his head during the Japanese anthem and remarked that he was ashamed to compete for an occupying power, rather than for an independent Korea. A Korean newspaper, the "Dong-a Ilbo", obscured the Japanese rising sun symbol on Sohn's uniform in a photograph of the victory ceremony, resulting in the Japanese government suspending the newspaper and jailing some of its employees.

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