What to Know
- Los Angeles arrived early Monday afternoon at LAX with the official Olympic flag.
- Bass received the flag at Sunday's Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in an .
- Tom Cruise appeared to transport the flag to LA in a very Tom Cruise way during the Closing Ceremony, but that action-packed sequence was all .
- The flag, which will be taken to Los Angeles City Hall, will be raised at the main venue during the Opening Ceremony at the , the third hosted by Los Angeles.
- The was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Olympic movement.
- A rattled Southern California a few minutes before the plane carrying the flag arrived at LAX.
The official Olympic flag arrived in Los Angeles four years ahead of the 2028 Olympics after its flight from Paris.
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