The opening ceremony isn't until Friday, but events are officially underway today, including

men's soccer and rugby.

Millions of fans will descend on the city as will athletes from around the globe

including American superstars like Simone Biles, Shaquarie Richardson, LeBron

James, Cocoa Golf and Katie Ladecky.

To preview the Summer Games, I am joined from Paris by Christine Brennan columnist for USA Today.

Christine, great to see you.

Thanks for joining us.

Amin Great to be with you.

Thank you.

So before we dive into this game, I have to just ask you about some Olympics related news out today.

The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2034 Winter Games will be hosted by Salt Lake City, but there's been some controversy around

that decision.

Explain that to us.

Exactly.

Salt Lake City is really the only city that won in the 2034 games are very

controversial it costs a lot of money we expected this omna to just be a slam dunk.

Instead the IOC several members brought up basically a demand, demanding the local officials

in Utah and Salt Lake City, including the governor, a seed to their wishes to shut down the federal investigation that's going on involving the Chinese doping

controversy that I'm sure many remember and have heard of involving swimming.

The U.S. the FBI is investigating, there's a law. of

involving swimming. The U.S. the FBI is investigating. There's a law called the Rajchenko Act that actually allows the United States to investigate doping schemes that affect U.S. athletes

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