LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council members on Monday called for the city and LA28 to have “hard and honest” conversations and come up with a backup plan in the case of a widespread boycott of the 2028 Olympic Games. The council members’ requests come against the backdrop of mounting calls for a boycott of this summer’s World Cup because rising international concerns about the Trump administration’s actions regarding Greenland, Venezuela and the recent fatal shootings of citizens by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Oke Göttlich, vice president of the German Football Association, said in an interview with a German newspaper that the time has come to “seriously...
