TSX RECAP: LA28 sees $2 billion in sponsors by year-end; SLC-Utah starting small (very small) in year one; new Grand Slam Track challengers!

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● LOS ANGELES 2028: The new U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Properties sales chief said that the LA28 organizers could reach $2 billion in sponsorships by end of 2025, or about 80% of the budgeted sponsorship total! The LA28 staff is growing; it’s at about 250 now.? Read more here: https://bit.ly/3EXzaWw

● SALT LAKE CITY-UTAH 2034: The SLC-Utah 2034 Winter Games organizing committee had its first Board and Steering Committee meetings, with Chair Fraser Bullock calling the Games “a gift for us to be able to serve the world.” Only about a half-dozen staff are expected to be hired in the first year.? Read more here: https://bit.ly/41Bjelq

● ATHLETICS: Sprint stars Jacious Sears (USA), Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) and Paris 800 m Olympic speedsters Emmanuel Wanyonyi (KEN) and American Bryce Hoppel confirmed as Kingston Grand Slam Track “Challengers.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hTwoQH ?

≡ PANORAMA ≡

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● Milan Cortina 2026: Defying predictions of disaster, the icing system at the under-construction sliding track for the 2026 Winter Games?was started on Thursday, allowing pre-certification work begin – on time – in March.?

● Diving: British star Matty Lee, who combined with Tom Daley for a huge upset victory in the Tokyo 2020 men’s 3 m Synchro final, retired at 26.?

● Nordic Skiing: Complete shock at the FIS World Championships in Norway in the women’s Nordic Combined, as Norway’s two-time gold winner Gyda Westvold Hansen took silver with Japanese sisters Yuna and Haruka Kasai going 1-3!

? In Cross Country, more of the same as Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (NOR) won the men’s Sprint for the four time in a row and Jonna Sundling (SWE) won the women’s Sprint for the third consecutive Worlds.?

● Wrestling: Chance Marstellar won the only men’s Freestyle gold for the U.S. at the UWW Ranking Series tournament in Albania.?

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