Posted on 01/31/2017 5:49:36 PM PST by SMGFan
The torch won’t be lit on the 2024 Olympics for 7½ years, but already there’s one name that looms over the whole affair. While Olympics observers debate whether President Trump helps or hurts Los Angeles’ efforts to host the Summer Games, Olympics insiders are wrestling with just how to handle the polarizing president. “They’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t,” said David Carter, the executive director of the Sports Business Institute at USC’s Marshall School of Business. “If, as usually is the case, you have the president among your highest ranking officials promoting the bid, it draws controversy. If he’s not included in the conversation and not a part of the push, people will point a finger and say ah-ha. It certainly puts the [United State Olympics Committee] in a tough spot.”
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Yes.
And as of today, yes.
And they come hat in hand...
This is just dumb! Peter Ueberroth was a brilliant CEO of the 1984 games, the only Olympics that I have attended. Will they put it under good management again?
Give it to Mittens; he saved the Salt Lake games. He IS useful for something! ;)
Another Olympics in LA should be profitable, but with the BS leadership we have now who knows.
Why should Trump help get an Olympic bid for a state that won’t even be a part of the U.S. by the time the Olympics come around?
Governor Brown. Mayor. The state’s Leftist mental rejects, welcome to reality.
Did Obama affect the Chicago Olympics bid? Did the media get wee-wee’d up about it?
I don’t think he was blamed for the Chicago loss. I do think he should have been. As I recall he exhibited the ugly American to the max. No class whatsoever.
They are talking about succession, why would someone want to hold the games in the bankrupt country of California
California is broke.
LA even more broke.
Just what LA needs. Another olympics that the city or county call ill afford. Brazil lost their ass in 2016 financially. By 2024 it’ll probably be worse.
CC
I kind of like the idea of having the Olympics in Los Angeles, and then Trump fully closing our borders just prior, so that we get all the medals.
Trump might not be able to score the Olympics for LA the way Obama did for Chicago.
Yea, that’s just what LA needs.....Another Billion dollars of debt.
I hope L.A. fails to get it. Frankly why would any city want it...Olympics are a big $$$ loser
I sure hope so. California is going to need every penny it can get its hands on to pay for healthcare for Mexican Nationals.
Ask me if i give a fig about the olympics! They are not worth the effort and they usually bankrupt the city/country hosting them.
Live in CA. and we CAN’T AFFORD the Olympics HERE no how no way!!! STUPID!!! If we lose the bid due to Trump it will BE MORE WINNING as far as I am concerned!!!!!
Everything else is crap here; I want the Olympics. I probably know some competitors and I would be excited to go.
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