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A marquee moment of Thursday’s schedule was the “premiere” of a spectacular short-film produced by the Walt Disney Studios on behalf of the SCCOG which features Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mayor Villaraigosa and prominent Olympians from the Los Angeles area. Mayor Villaraigosa, Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, SCCOG board members, Olympians including Rafer Johnson, Evans, Banks and others, Lakers Coach Phil Jackson and President Jeanie Buss and additional guests joined the USOC commission for a special Getty Center dinner on Thursday night. On Friday, the USOC commission and members of the media were given a tour of many of the venues that would serve a Los Angeles 2016 Games. The trip, which included transportation on one of the many rail lines that are integral to the transportation program for the proposed Games, – 94% of all tickets sold for the Games will be accessible by rail – took the two groups through Home Depot Center in Carson, multiple venues in Long Beach and concluded in Downtown Los Angeles at STAPLES Center. “As it does in so many diverse and exciting situations, Los Angeles put its best foot forward during this visit,” concluded Sanders. “We are pleased the USOC commission was able to spend some time in our wonderful community and hope they leave here as confident as all of us are that there is no better place in the world for the 2016 Olympic Games than Los Angeles.”
About the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games (SCCOG)
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