As they did in 1984, the LA Games in 2028 will transform — everything. Alan Abrahamson has spent more than 25 years covering the Olympic movement. His website, 3 Wire Sports, launched in 2010, has been described as “the world’s best source of information about the [Olympic] Games and the culture that surrounds them.”

Abrahamson was first in the world to suggest publicly, in 2016, that the International Olympic Committee make a historical simultaneous double award of the 2024 and 2028 Games to LA and Paris — though he said it should be LA first and then Paris. In September 2017, the IOC simply reversed the order.

Since 2003, Abrahamson has had a relationship, online or on-air, with NBC. From 1989 to 2006, he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times — nine years in news (he covered the first Menendez brothers trial, in 1993-4), the last eight in sports. The 2026 Milano-Cortina Games marked his 14th Olympics, Summer and Winter; he served for nearly 20 years as a member of the IOC press committee.

At USC Annenberg, Abrahamson has had the privilege — now in his 16th year — of teaching to grad students and undergrads alike. Courses have ranged across sports, news and law. Abrahamson is a 1980 graduate of the Northwestern University journalism school, and a 1987 graduate of the University of California’s law school in San Francisco; he is a member (inactive) of the State Bar of California.

He and his wife, Laura, live in Hermosa Beach, California. They have three children.

Awards and Honors:

Sports Emmy, NBCOlympics.com, lead columnist 2016, 2014, 2008

AIPS International Sportswriters Association award for best 2020 column/pandemic, 2021

Track and Field Writers of America, Adam Jacobs Memorial Award for excellence in online journalism, 2014

National Headliner Award, sportswriting, 2002

Associated Press Sports Editors enterprise reporting, first place, 2000