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Gene Sykes said Trump, who last month issued his first public
support for the LA2024 bid, not only wants Los Angeles to host
the Olympics but will "make accommodations" to his policies and
ensure "free access to people" to compete.
"He wants the Olympic Games badly enough that if anything the
administration does gets in the way of free access for people at
international sporting events in the United States, I would
daresay that includes FIFA, they will make accommodations,"
Sykes told Reuters at a business and technology summit in Santa
Monica, California.
CONCACAF, the governing body for soccer in North and Central
America and the Caribbean, is mulling a three-way joint bid for
the 2026 World Cup between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Earlier on Thursday FIFA boss Gianni Infantino said Trump's
executive order barring admission of refugees and some travelers
from a group of Muslim-majority countries could prevent the
United States from hosting the 2026 World Cup.
Bidding for the 2024 summer Games has entered its final stage,
with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) scheduled to
choose between Los Angeles and Paris in September.
Sykes said politics is as unpredictable in the United States as
it is in France, adding that "in a one-on-one competition
politics nets out."
(Editing by Frank Pingue)
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