Barry Sanders, executive counsel at Latham & Watkins who is chairman of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, wants to bring the Olympics back.

Barry Sanders, executive counsel at Latham & Watkins who is chairman of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, wants to bring the Olympics back to Los Angeles in 2016.

"This is teed up in the near future, so we're not too early on this," he said, noting that the U.S.-Olympic Committee has to select one city by 2007, if L.A. plans to bid at all. The selection process will take place next year. The International Olympic Committee is asking that bidding cities provide a guarantee that they will cover any deficit, which could be an advantage for Los Angeles, which managed the 1984 games without running a deficit.

The local committee plans to name four new directors to join a 60-member board that already includes Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Steven B. Sample, president of USC and Olympian Janet Evans.

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