Most Influential 2017: Janet Evans still makes Olympic waves

On an August night in 2015, as Janet Evans led six 8-year-old kids into Staples Center for a Taylor Swift concert, her cell phone rang.
It was an old friend, Casey Wasserman, the sports and media entrepreneur. He had just agreed to lead Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympic Games after another big U.S. contender for the Olympics, Boston, dropped out amid political and financial uncertainty and mounting public opposition.
U.S. Olympian Janet Evans walks on the beach near her home in Laguna