{"id":6839,"date":"2016-08-22T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2016-08-22T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:25:05","slug":"bravo-anti-u-s-sentiment-due-to-russia-bushing-could-ruin-los-angeles-2024-olympics-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=6839","title":{"rendered":"Bravo! Anti-U.S. Sentiment Due To Russia Bushing Could Ruin Los Angeles\u2019 2024 Olympics Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"headline__subtitle\">IOC members reportedly ticked at Americans\u2019 push for drug sanctions against Russia.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"top-media\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;top_media&quot;}}\">\n<div class=\"top-media--image\">\n<figure class=\"content-list-component image\"><figcaption class=\"image__caption js-image-caption\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, speaking at a press conference in Rio about L.A.\u2019s Olympic bid, acknowledged there could be backlash from the IOC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"share-bar-highlight js-highlight\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A bid by Los Angeles to host the 2024 Olympic Games could fall victim to anti-American sentiment brewing inside the International Olympic Committee, sources inside the IOC said.<\/p>\n<p>The bid, which is competing against three European cities, risks an anti-U.S. protest vote by several IOC members angry over America\u2019s prominent role in pursuing doping allegations against Russian athletes, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC will decide on bids from Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Budapest in September next year.<\/p>\n<p>At least three non-Russian IOC members, speaking on condition of anonymity, said America\u2019s intervention into allegations of systematic Russian doping had marred the run-up to the Rio Games and tarnished the IOC brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course the Los Angeles bid will face some consequences from this,\u201d an IOC member said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice is probing allegations of Russian doping on U.S. soil, and the U.S. anti-doping agency (USADA) called for a total ban on Russians in Rio even as U.S. athletes with a history of positive drugs tests competed there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"content-list-component image\"><span class=\"share-bar-image-wrapper\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_image&quot;}}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image__src\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/scalefit_630_noupscale\/57bae19c1700002c00d203bf.jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__credit js-image-credit\">ED JONES VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/div><figcaption class=\"image__caption js-image-caption\">L.A.\u2019s campaign to host the 2024 Games continued at a Rio press conference, but the United States\u2019 push for doping sanctions against Russia could reportedly hurt the bid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>None of the IOC members interviewed by Reuters could give an estimate of how many of the IOC\u2019s 98 members were thinking along the same lines. Elections for host cities can be decided by a handful of votes and be heavily influenced by politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-articles\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mlid&quot;:&quot;entry_middle&quot;,&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;related_text&quot;}}\">\n<h2 class=\"related-articles__title\">Related&#8230;The Ryan Lochte Scandal<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"related-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"related-articles__list__item\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;hdln&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1}}\"><a class=\"related-articles__list__item__title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/rios-airport-wall-is-full-of-apologies-for-ryan-lochte_us_57bac372e4b00d9c3a187810\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1}}\">Rio\u2019s Airport Wall Is Full Of Apologies For Ryan Lochte<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Last year\u2019s vote for the 2022 winter Olympics was won by Beijing, with just four votes more than Kazakhstan\u2019s Almaty.<\/p>\n<p>Russia alone has three IOC members.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the LA 2024 bid team, Casey Wasserman, said it would not make sense for IOC members to vote against Los Angeles on the basis of investigations totally unrelated to its bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoping agencies in America are independent. They are not under the control of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC); they are certainly not under the control of a private independent bid, which is what we are,\u201d Wasserman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are independent of USOC and of the city of Los Angeles; we are private and to somehow use that against us seems misguided,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"content-list-component image\"><span class=\"share-bar-image-wrapper\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_image&quot;}}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image__src\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/scalefit_630_noupscale\/57bae5691800002100bcc3a6.jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__credit js-image-credit\">ANDY CLARK \/ REUTERS<\/div><figcaption class=\"image__caption js-image-caption\">Los Angeles last hosted the Olympics in 1984, when Carl Lewis (pictured with Ben Johnson) won the first of his nine gold medals, in the 100 meters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has acknowledged that there could be a backlash from some IOC members but has also distanced the bid from the actions of the other, independent U.S. bodies, such as the Department of Justice and USADA.<\/p>\n<p>Another IOC member said a separate Department of Justice investigation into corruption at world soccer\u2019s governing body, FIFA, also rankled some committee members, given close links between the two sporting bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Several senior FIFA officials were arrested last year, awakened at their five-star hotel in Zurich and held in prison pending extradition to the United States over corruption and embezzlement charges.<\/p>\n<p>IOC member Issa Hayatou of Cameroon is FIFA\u2019s senior vice president, while Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad al Sabah of Kuwait, who is in charge of the IOC\u2019s central fund, the Olympic Solidarity, is a member of the FIFA council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"content-list-component image\"><span class=\"share-bar-image-wrapper\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_image&quot;}}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image__src\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/scalefit_630_noupscale\/57bae5fc1700002c00d203c6.jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image__credit js-image-credit\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/div><figcaption class=\"image__caption js-image-caption\">The \u201cRocket Man\u201d was among the highlights of the Opening Ceremony of L.A.\u2019s most recent Olympics in 1984. Officials may have to overcome anti-U.S. sentiment among IOC authorities to host the games again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content-list-component text\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Neither of the two members, who declined to comment, has been named in relation to investigations of the FIFA cases.<\/p>\n<p>Another IOC member said there would be \u201csignificant\u201d fallout for the Los Angeles bid.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian lawyer\u2019s investigation into what he called systematic Russian doping led to the world athletics federation banning the country\u2019s track and field team, with the exception of just one athlete, from the Rio Games.<\/p>\n<p>USADA had formed a coalition of anti-doping bodies calling for a blanket ban on all Russian competitors at the Games, but the IOC eventually cleared more than 270 Russians to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, United World Wrestling Federation President Nenad Lalovic, an IOC member and a member of the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) board, made comments to Reuters that were indicative of the frustration felt by some IOC members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSADA should be focused on the health of American athletes and those competing in the United States,\u201d Lalovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it seems that USADA and the Canadians took over responsibility of WADA. Nobody entitled them to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/anti-us-sentiment-could-ruin-los-angeles-2024-olympics-bid_us_57badd37e4b00d9c3a187da5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC members reportedly ticked at Americans\u2019 push for drug sanctions against Russia. &nbsp; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, speaking at a press conference in Rio about L.A.\u2019s Olympic bid, acknowledged there could be backlash from the IOC. A bid by Los Angeles to host the 2024 Olympic Games could fall victim to anti-American sentiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,102],"tags":[1305,1306,1221],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-olympia-2024","tag-russia-boycott","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/57badf65170000d002d203ad.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SfUR-1Mj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}