#la-2028-olympics

#la-2028-olympics

Pressure built Tuesday on Casey Wasserman as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing team after the city's mayor urged him to leave over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend. LA Mayor Karen Bass told CNN late Monday my opinion is that he should step down despite Wasserman getting support last week from the LA 2028 organizing board to stay. The issue has been a distraction for the International Olympic Committee this month since Wasserman's flirtatious emails from 2003 with Ghislaine Maxwell were published in a release of US government files days before the Milano Cortina Winter Games opened.

The sports and entertainment talent agent said in a memo to staff that he had "become a distraction" to the company's work and had started the process to sell the firm. Mike Watts, a long-time executive, would take on day-to-day control of the business, he said in the memo obtained by Bloomberg News. Some of Ireland's best-known personalities are signed to the global music and sports agency.

Donald Trump has never conceded his 2020 election defeat. But after lobbying hard for Los Angeles to host the 2028 summer Olympic Games during his first term, the US president has found at least one silver lining to what he calls his circuitous route back to the White House. I didn't think I'd be here for the games in this capacity, Trump mused, as he signed an executive order naming himself the chair of the White House's LA Olympics taskforce.