Presenters

Janet Evans is a three-time Olympic swimmer with four gold medals and one silver medal to her name. A key leader of Los Angeles’ bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Janet brings her firsthand experience as an elite athlete and her deep institutional knowledge of the global and U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movements to the LA28 Games. She's spearheading the effort to ensure athletes are at the heart of LA’s plans for the Games. Evans joined the team in September 2015. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, she passed the Olympic flame to Muhammad Ali.