Los Angeles, you're next.
Paris raised the game for the Paralympics , with more than 4,000 athletes as well as 2.4 million tickets sold, which was second only to the London Games of 2012. Now the challenge for U.S. organizers is to top it with another breakout moment for para sports.
"We want to conquer America," said Craig Spence, a spokesman for the International Paralympic Committee.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover, CEO of the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and Paralympics, is confident the Paralympics can do just that.
"We don't have the Eiffel Tower, we don't have the Grand Palais, but we've got the Coliseum and we've got the Rose Bowl and we've got SoFi (Stadium), and all these tremendous state-of-the-art venues," he said in an interview Friday as the Paris Games wound down.
