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LA28 to be first Olympic Games to sell naming rights for venues

LA28 Chairman Casey Wasserman was in Washington, DC on August 5 with US President Donald Trump who signed an executive order to create a White House Olympics task force to handle security and other issues related to the LA 2028 Summer Olympic Games [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

Organisers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking down the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums.

The organising committee announced the landmark deal Thursday, saying contracts were already in place with two of its founding partners – Honda, which already has naming rights for the arena in Anaheim that will host volleyball, and Comcast, which will have its name on the temporary venue hosting squash.

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