New IOC Leader To Collaborate With US President Trump
International Olympic Committee’s newly-elected President Kirsty Coventry wants to sit down with United States President Donald Trump to make sure the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics are successful, she said.
President Trump is a huge supporter of sport. There’s never been a sitting president that has attended the Super Bowl,” Coventry she said.
“He was the president at the time when LA was awarded the Games (in 2017).
I truly believe that he wants the LA 28 Games to be a huge success.”
Coventry, who is Zimbabwe’s sports minister, as well as Africa’s most decorated Olympian, said both the IOC and the United States wanted successful Olympics in three years time.
The LA Games present a major commercial opportunity, with the IOC seeking to create new sources of revenues, and the American market presenting new opportunities with the first summer Olympics in the United States in more than 30 years.
Reuters/Jamiu Ogunshe, Lagos
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