LA 2024 Contingency Headed To Rio Games To Evaluate Bid

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti "leads a 25-person contingent traveling" from L.A. to Rio this week "to promote their city's bid" for the '24 Games. The LA 2024 team "will spend much of its time at the Rio Games getting a backstage look" through the IOC's observer program and "grabbing face time with IOC voters and influential officials from the federations that govern each sport." With the bid committee "sending its entire staff to Brazil," Chair Casey Wasserman, CEO Gene Sykes and Vice Chair Janet Evans "will also be on hand" (L.A. TIMES, 8/1). Evans tweeted, "So fun to be flying to Rio at this very moment on a @United flight with what feels like every seat filled by @TeamUSA athletes! @LA2024."