Los Angeles Olympics board adds Trump allies Kevin McCarthy and Reince Priebus
President Trump reveals task force for 2028 Olympics
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly joins ‘News & Friends First’ to discuss President Donald Trump’s announcement of a task force to organize logistics for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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The committee behind the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics added former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Reince Priebus to its board, LA 28 reported.
Those additions were made after Trump increased his participation in the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics.
Trump signed an executive order in August that created an Olympics task force at the White House for security and other issues.
One of the task force’s top priorities will be coordinating the work of federal, state and local governments on transportation. It will also “streamline visa and credential processing for foreign athletes, coaches, officials and media.”
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Trump has also influenced the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s policy on gender eligibility in women’s sports. In July, the USOPC amended its athlete safety policy to suggest compliance with Trump’s executive order “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
“(The) USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities…to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201,” the policy states.
The president said when announcing the task force in August that there would be a “very strong form of testing” in response to a question about mandatory genetic testing for women’s sports.
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At the USOPC Media Summit in October, chief medical officer Jonathan Finnoff said SRY gene testing used by World Athletics and World Boxing is “not common” in the U.S., but suggested the USOPC is exploring options to employ sex testing options for its own teams.
“It’s not necessarily very common to do this specific test in the United States, so our goal was to help identify labs and options for athletes to be able to take that test. And based on that experience, and knowing that some other international federations will probably follow suit, figuring out how we can make this process seamless… is where we are now,” Finnof said. “But we have a good process.”
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USOPC board chairman Gene Sykes called Trump’s executive order to prevent men from participating in women’s sports “consistent with (the) international trend.”
“And fortunately, the executive order designed to protect women’s sports in the United States is very consistent with the international trend,” Sykes said. “The expectation is that this is where world sport, international sport, will go.”
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