Today the LA 2024 Olympic Bid Committee showed its support for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in a new video. The video stars Brazilian Olympic silver-medalist Thiago Periera, and speaks about how the world will love the competition in Rio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0uYVpOLw4
Pereira won a silver medal at 2012 London Games in the 400 IM and has won 23 medals at the Pan American Games, more than any other athlete in any sport. Pereira will be representing Brazil in Rio this summer.
“I know that the world will love visiting Rio…and will fully experience the beauty of our land, our culture, and our people just as the athletes are training hard right now to win medals,” Thiago narrates in the video.
Thiago continues, “there are many people in Rio working hard to make sure that the Games will be a fantastic experience the athletes, fans, and everybody in the global Olympic movement.”
Los Angeles hopes for a bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, and has formed a committee called LA 2024. Among the leadership is Janet Evans who serves as the Vice Chairperson and is the Director of Athlete Relations.
Los Angeles is competing with Rome and Paris for bids for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
The video is only one of many attributed to a campaign supporting Rio run by LA 2024, including a series called “Going for Gold” in which US athletes are profiled ahead of the Summer Games.
Finally the US candidate city has understood that you can’t win if you are at war with half of the world. That half of the world represents a lot of countries, a lot of IOC members who vote to elect the host city. Show these countries some love and avoid irritating them.
I’m sure the Olympics will be very nice but that won’t change the fact that allowing Brazil to host an expensive Olympics two years after hosting an expensive World Cup is unethical when Brazil/Rio has so much poverty and corruption. Ignoring the fact that we are on the edge of a global Zika epidemic (a virus we know very little about) and ignoring every other reason scaremongers like to bring up every time Rio is mentioned, allowing a country as poverty stricken as Rio pay the price (and it is the poorer who will be footing the bill through taxes that could have been used elsewhere) for the two biggest sporting events in the world is wrong and even LA… Read more »