The 2026 Winter Olympics just concluded in Italy — dazzling performances on ice and snow, punctuated by the occasional over-confessional athlete and embarrassing U.S. official (here and here). But taken together, the Games once again captured the global imagination, reminding us how powerfully a single flame can unite us and hold the world’s attention.
In two years, that flame will be lit in Los Angeles.
The 2028 Summer Olympics promise spectacle and pageantry, with representatives from nearly every nation on earth (at least the ones whose governments have yet to be toppled to distract us from the Epstein Files).
Unlike the 2024 Paris Games, which sent surfers halfway across the globe to Tahiti, Los Angeles will keep its surfing competition closer to home: San Onofre Beach, one of Southern California’s most iconic breaks.
San Onofre is also home to the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
Buried there are 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste. Stored in aging casks. On a beach vulnerable to destructive king tides. In a region so seismically active it has earned the nickname “Earthquake Bay.”
Roughly nine million people live within a 50-mile radius.
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