Casey Wasserman

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FILE - In this May 24, 2016, file photo, Casey Wasserman, head of the 2024 Los Angeles Olympics bid committee, talks with the media in Charlotte N.C. Los Angeles and Paris should edge closer Friday, June 9, 2017 to both getting Olympic host city rights later this year. The strangest Olympic bidding race in four decades will take clearer shape when the IOC board weighs opening up the 2024 contest also to include the 2028 award in September. LA officials have set a tone suggesting they could accept 2028. “To be blunt, LA 2024 has never been only about LA or 2024,” Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA 2024 bid, said in a statement Thursday. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)