Chairperson and President Casey Wasserman continues to lead organization
LOS ANGELES - LA 2028 today announced that Chief Executive Officer Gene Sykes will assume a new advisory role with a formal invitation to join the LA 2028 board. Casey Wasserman will continue to lead the organization in his role as chairperson and president.
As CEO of the LA 2024 and LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Candidature Committee, Sykes was instrumental in helping to bring the Games back to the U.S. for the first time in a generation. Since the IOC’s historic decision to award Los Angeles the 2028 Games, Sykes has worked with Wasserman to oversee the organization's successful transition into an organizing committee.
"On behalf of all of us at LA28, I want to thank Gene for his friendship, his leadership, and his passion for seeing the Games return to his native Los Angeles," said Wasserman. "We are grateful for Gene’s contribution to the next chapter of Los Angeles’ Olympic and Paralympic story and appreciate the diligent work he’s done to build our organizing committee’s foundation. We are well positioned for our journey ahead."
LA 2028 will continue to benefit from Sykes’ familiarity with the Olympic and Paralympic Movement and his experience as a finance executive.
"Working with Casey and the rest of the LA28 team has been a remarkable experience," said Sykes, who will transition January 1. "I am proud of our accomplishments and look forward to continuing to support the mission of LA 2028 as the Olympic and Paralympic Games come to Los Angeles."
The announcement of Sykes’ new role comes as the organization completes its successful transition into an organizing committee and begins its commercial program. In 2019, LA 2028 is expected to begin partnership sales, refine its Games plan and roll out its youth sport program.
LA 2028’s unique 10-year time horizon encourages a more flexible and innovative approach to Games planning, as the organization focuses on benefiting communities across Southern California, inspiring the next generation of sports fans and reimagining the future of the Games.
For more information visit www.la28.org.
LA 2028 can also be found on the following social media channels:
Facebook.com/LA2028
Twitter.com/LA2028
Instagram.com/LA2028Games
YouTube.com/LA2028
###
Luca Servodio
Los Angeles 2028
10960 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1050
Los Angeles, CA 90024
o. 424.320.4513
c. 323.537.9886
la28.org
25 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is www.aroundtherings.com, for subscribers only
Recent Articles
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
