LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman and United States Olympic Committee [USOC] Chairman Larry Probst attended the United World Wrestling’s [UWW] 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas on Thursday, as the LA 2024 team looks absorb the latest international best practices at major sports events in its bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
UWW’s 2015 World Championships have attracted elite wrestlers from 99 countries to the state-of-the-art Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The six-day event is being hosted by USA Wrestling and the USOC.
Casey Wasserman said: "I would like to congratulate United World Wrestling and their President Nenad Lalovic on these hugely successful World Championships. I came here just to listen and learn from an International Federation [IF] which has worked really hard to innovate in recent years. It is particularly interesting to see what UWW is doing around sports presentation and the use of digital media to grab their audience’s attention and keep it
"The LA 2024 team and I are looking forward to being out on the road and experiencing these major events first-hand, because no-one knows how to stage these sports better than the International Federations."
The LA 2024 Bid Committee will travel extensively over the course of their two-year campaign to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, meeting with International Federations and renowned experts to ensure their offering to the Olympic Movement represents the cutting edge in sports event hosting.
"LA 2024 is in a very fortunate position, because 85% of our venues are already in place or planned and 80% of those have been built since the last time we hosted the Games in 1984," Wasserman continued. "With our existing world-class venues and the experienced teams operating them, we can offer the IFs an outstanding level of capability: from delivering a technically faultless field of play, to imaginative, engaging sports presentation, to guaranteed full venues. We want to show that LA 2024 is the ideal partner for the athletes, the fans and TV audiences around the world."
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