​International Olympic Committee Executive Director Christophe Dubi spoke with NBCSports.com about preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with two years to go until the Opening Ceremony.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity:AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNBCSports.com: How are preparations going two years out from the LA 2028 Games?Dubi: If you would take a Games organization manual, you would say do like LA: at the two years mark, make sure that you have sold that many tickets, sponsorship and have a market that is incredibly excited about hosting the event on one side. On the other, having ticked off all the boxes on what you don’t see, which is behind the scenes: managing complexities of planning in terms of transport, security, technology and all these others that make the Games complicated to organize. So they master complexity because they have a great team. They sell these Games extremely well. You can see the excitement. So going into the two years mark, I think we are on very strong footing.NBCSports.com: You mentioned complexities. Can you give me an example of a complexity makes LA different from recent Games?Dubi: They’re big. We have more sports. We have more tickets. We have an added factor of complexity, which is moving around without what we could enjoy in the last Games in Paris of this massive public transportation system, underground in particular.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSo, all in all, these Games are incredibly ambitious when it comes to the sport program, the biggest ever — 36 sports and 353 events, number of tickets to be sold, and it’s going to be sold out. We can be sure the venues will be very exciting.But at the same time, you have to bring and service all these people, and the expectations when it comes to the Games are extremely high, right? So I think it’s the factor of these numbers and the context in which you deliver. Now, LA is a great city. They have all the greatest minds in the world, including in the tech sector, so we’ll find solutions.NBCSports.com: Let’s talk a little about Oklahoma City. What are the hopes and plans for making the athletes and everybody there feel connected to what’s going on in Los Angeles?Dubi: Based on what we’ve learned in Milano Cortina, our athletes commission has been working with the other athletes commissions as well, and we have a lot of surveys.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWhat the athletes want is to feel that connection through, one, the Opening Ceremony. The little capsules that we had in Cortina and Livigno, they worked. Could it be better? Yes. But, all in all, the athletes were very satisfied for many of them to be part of that ceremony So there is probably something to do here. Replicate Milano Cortina? I don’t know, but there is something to look into.Then it’s in the way we will connect with these athletes each and every day, so that they feel part of the LA Games while being in OKC. That’s through maybe