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Simone Manuel Backs Up Historic Olympic Win With World Championship Gold
2028 Olympics Will Be In L.A.
Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel broke a record at the World Championship.
"La La Land" will have to wait just a little longer to bring home the gold.
Los Angeles will be the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics instead of the 2024 games, of-
ficials confirmed on Monday. "Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time in 44 years is a golden op- portunity for LA," Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson said in a statement
on Monday.
After weeks of negotiation,
Los Angeles officials have reached a deal they hope will
generate hundreds of millions in savings and additional rev- enues.
The agreement will bring the Olympics back to Southern California for a third time, after Los Angeles hosted in 1984 and 1932.
Tokyo will host the games in 2020 and the games will be in Paris in 2024.
Simone Manuel won the world 100m freestyle title Friday in Budapest, beating out world record- holder Sarah Sjöström of Sweden in a record 52.27 sec- onds, NBC Sports reports.
Manuel backed up her historic victory at the Olympics with the win.
Sjostrom jumped out to a quick lead and was under her own world-record pace when she made the flip, with Manuel in third.
But the 20-year-old Texan stormed from behind
on the return lap, steadily closing the gap until she caught the leader on the very last stroke.
Manuel touched first with a time of 52.27 seconds — edging Sjostrom by just four-hundredths of a second.
Pernille Blume of Den- mark grabbed the bronze.
Last summer, Manuel became the first African- American woman to win an individual swimming gold at the Olympics when she tied Canada’s Penny Oleksiak for the gold in Rio de Janeiro.
Michael Jordan Says LaVar Ball Couldn't Beat Him 1-on-1 If He Were 'One-Legged
Bulls legend Jordan said LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of Los Angeles Lakers rookie point guard Lonzo Ball, couldn't beat him in a
one-on-one game, even if he only had one leg.
Ryne Nelson of Slam Online passed along com- ments MJ made Monday about the elder Ball's previ- ous claims he could take down the NBA GOAT in a head-to-head battle.
"You got to understand the source. I think he played college, maybe? He averaged 2.2 points a game. Really? It doesn't deserve a response, but I'ma give it to you be- cause you asked the ques- tion," Jordan said. "I don't think he could beat me if I was one-legged."
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