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The source gave no further details about the
meeting, which comes a day after Bach announced a new IOC
sponsorship deal with chipmaker Intel Corp in New York that is
set to run until 2024.
Trump has publicly backed the Los Angeles 2024 Games bid but has
so far had no active involvement in the campaign.
LA 2024 bid chief Casey Wasserman said last month Trump had
given strong support to the West Coast city in its efforts to
secure the Games.
"Donald Trump has done everything we could have asked to support
our bid," entertainment executive Wasserman said in May.
"Every letter, every phone call ... to President Bach... from
what we need from the federal government, he's been all I would
hope for."
Trump's predecessor Barack Obama did not meet the IOC at the
White House but travelled to the IOC session in Copenhagen in
2009 to back Chicago's 2016 Games bid.
However, Chicago crashed out in the first round, with U.S.-IOC
ties strained at the time over revenue-sharing deals from
sponsorship and broadcasting rights.
The IOC has said it is planning to award both the 2024 and the
2028 Games at its session in September in Lima, Peru, and that
Paris and Los Angeles are likely to share them among themselves.
Earlier this month the IOC passed a recommendation for a double
awarding, which will now be ratified in a July session with the
final order to be decided in Lima.
Los Angeles bid officials have repeatedly signalled that the
city would be open to being awarded the 2028 Olympics instead of
those four years earlier. Paris has insisted its bid plan could
only work for 2024.
With the double awarding the IOC is trying to keep both cities
happy as four others dropped out of the race, concerned by the
event's size and cost. More cities had dropped out of the race
for the 2022.
The IOC has now launched a reform process for bidding in order
to make the Games a more attractive prospect to potential host
cities.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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