The International Olympic Committee and LA28 organizers have “every confidence” that President Donald Trump’s newly announced travel ban won’t disrupt the Summer Games or the preparations for them.
Speaking after a meeting with the IOC’s coordination commission, LA28 chair and president Casey Wasserman said Thursday that Trump’s travel ban was clear in carving out an exception for the Olympics. Trump wants to block foreign nationals from 12 countries from coming to the United States and partially restrict the entry of foreign nationals from seven others.
The ban, scheduled to go into effect Monday, is likely to be challenged in court.
“I actually want to thank the federal government for recognizing that it's the Games writ large,” Wasserman said. “It's the constituents of people — the IOC members here this week and, for the next three years, the cadence of people from federations and governing bodies and (National Olympic Committees) and broadcasters — that you know so well as they've come to the city pre-Games and during the Games. It's very clear that the federal government understands that that's an environment that they will be accommodating and provide for.
“And so we have great confidence that that will only continue,” Wasserman added. “It has been the case to date, and it will certainly be the case going forward and through the Games.”
