TOM HOFFARTH: In the year 2024 ... an Olympic-sized headache for L.A.?

Just 92 years after the original blockbuster and 40following the sequel, Los Angeles insists it's game on to stage the climax to its own five-ringed trilogy and bid up the rights to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

What possibly could go wrong with that?

Infrastructure considerations aside, don't overlook the fact SoCal Olyfest III comes with a $10 million entry fee and an estimated operations expense of $3 billion. There's no guarantees this time the Guggenheim Group somehow could rescue it from bankruptcy and overpay to have it happen based on projected TV rights.

L.A.'s celebration also in all likelihood will come at the expense of Scandinavia and Siberia - two places scientists predict will have the perfect climate and 24-hour daylight access because of the latest global warming trends.

So right away, the rest of the world be hating us for being greedy.

Patrick Rishe, a writer on sports and business, came out with a piece Friday endorsing L.A. as the most "logical, cost-effective and practical choice" for this task.

"Only managerial incompetence or a penchant for excess" could doom L.A.'s chances, he added.

Have you met us?

The more we quantify the quantum mechanics, dabble with the Doppler weather pattern data and conduct a routine checkup of our city's character flaws (starting with this insane FasTrak carpool lane on the 110 Freeway), we have to advise against this routine floor exercise and suggest it all be staged with drones via video game controllers.

Otherwise, don't say you haven't been warned when:

Dennis Rodman, expected to march into the Farmer's Field Opening Ceremony as the flag-bearer of the newly renamed Bad Ass Republic of North Korea, fails the new IOC drug-screening procedures.

His urine tests positive for excessive uranium.

Supreme leader Kim Jong-un already had a meltdown after he was told he couldn't have the Harlem Globetrotters represent his country in men's or women's basketball, but perhaps a waiver could be obtained in rhythmic gymnastics.

As all forms of grappling continue to appear on the IOC's do-not-resuscitate list, the L.A. Olympic Organizing Committee approves female mud-wrestling as a demonstration sport.

"It just makes sense," LAOOC chief Tim Leiweke said. "That, and lots of dollars."

WWE activists protest outside the venue, the Chavez Moshpit Presented by King Taco, where Dodger Stadium used to exist.

This comes after the LAOOC also considered bringing in competitive pole dancing as a sport, but it was rejected by a margin so slim you could slide a $1 bill between it.

L.A. mayor Magic Johnson isn't happy.

He's constantly on his cornea-activated Insta-Blink account - Twitter was so last decade - and Winks out a string of controversial messages regarding the methods by which the U.S. men's basketball team was picked by coach Steve Lavin.

His Magic Honor says his lodging of complaints has nothing to do with the fact his grandson was the final roster cut because he couldn't dunk on the 13-foot baskets.

Magic offers $1 trillion to anyone who can dunk on the newly adjusted rims.

There's more backlash as Canadian basketball coach Steve Nash responds in a Maple-Drip-Tort - it's that country's latest social media rage - that the pairings for the tournament are completely unfair.

He lamented his team has to play four games in five nights against Pau Gasol's squad from Real Spain Imperialism United - that's the new U.N.-approved name for the coalition of Spain, Portugal, Morocco, the Western Sahara and San Diego State, which finally decided to leave the Mountain West Conference.

Meanwhile, the Shabazz Muhammad-led Team USA somehow wormed its way into Pool B, which includes The Decadent Hangout Formerly Known as Greece, a country that retained naming rights to the property annexed to Bulgaria in a complicated stock swap but essentially is now used as a refueling station for Turkish luxury cruisers.

France, which has become one of the world's burgeoning superpowers based on its olive oil reserves and fresh carbonated water supply, officially boycotts the Games.

It claims the decision is more a result of laziness. It just doesn't want to keep paying the quadrennial entry fees that don't guarantee any fair distribution of precious medals.

"We are not retreating here," French Olympic committee chief Zinedine Zidane claimed, "but frankly, if you won't accept our newly minted franc we are done butting heads over this."

That, and they're not all that thrilled to see L.A. Olympics title sponsor McDonald's take French fries off the menu.

Defending U.S. Olympic poker champion Lenny Dykstra is banned from competition at the Hustler Casino after it was discovered he smuggled in his own deck of cards.

The tobacco and deer-antler spray stains were the first giveaways.

The Future Pentathlon, an event intended to combine the elements of the Ancient Pentathlon with the ideas of the Modern Pentathlon, is scrapped when not enough competitors qualify.

It's instead incorporated as the name of a new ride at Disneyland, where former U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney is allowed to be the first to try it out.

She's not impressed.

Metta World Police - that's his new name, after Johnson appointed him L.A.'s chief of law enforcement - threatens to quit two days into the event. He is criticized about his so-called "cling and jerk" search tactics in place for all spectators entering any facility.

He threatens to fight back but then thinks better of it.

"I should have had my head examined before taking this job," he said.