Members of Congress Seek to Expand Sports Diplomacy

“It is an opportunity to show off your host city and to show off your Olympians,” Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Democrat of California, said in an interview. “But it’s also an opportunity to lean into diplomacy — business-to-business relationships, nonprofit-to-business, government relationships.”

Ms. Kamlager-Dove is a leading sponsor of the American Decade of Sports Act, legislation introduced on Friday, which seeks to expand the State Department’s role in sports diplomacy.