Cable, a 12-time Paralympic medallist across Summer and Winter editions, was one of eight LA 2024 executives that took part in the Observers' Programme at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, which concluded here yesterday.

She said the US "hadn’t done the best job of educating the public about the excitement and the opportunity of Paralympic sport" and pinpointed Britain as a good example to follow.

British broadcaster Channel 4 provided more than 700 hours of Paralympic broadcast during the Rio 2016 Games, while America’s NBC presented coverage equating to just 10 per cent of that figure.

The US finished fourth in the Rio 2016 Paralympic medal table, two places and 24 gold medals behind runners-up Britain. 

"We have work to do," Cable told insidethegames.

"If we get the honour of the Games, one of the things we’re really excited about is we live in a place in LA where we can really push that.

"We can really bring these Games to the forefront."

Cable is widely recognised as a pioneer of wheelchair racing, having participated in creating race director guidelines and fine-tuning elements of the sport such as rules and endorsements. 

After competing in the first-ever Olympic wheelchair racing event in 1984, the year when LA last hosted the Games, she went on to compete at the Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 Summer Paralympic Games, as well as at five editions of the Winter Paralympic Games in the Alpine and Nordic ski racing events. 

Given her pedigree, the appointment of Cable as a vice-chair in March was viewed as an attempt to show how seriously LA organisers are treating the Paralympics.

Reflecting on her experiences in Rio, the eight-time Paralympic gold medallist said: "One of the things we learned here was when you build anything for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, if you build with the Paralympics in mind first, then you’re going to have this fantastic experience from both Games.

"I’m not sure that that’s really been done in the past from that perspective.

"It’s kind of like, we’ll put the ramps in after the Olympics Games are over.

"If you put a ramp in first, that can increase awareness all the way across.

"It’s really subtle, subconscious awareness but that’s what really has to happen and we can do that."

Forming part of LA 2024’s delegation here was Stephen Simon, executive director at City of Los Angeles Department on Disability.

He described the idea that the Paralympics need to be more accessible than the Olympics as a "false concept".

"Services, facilities and programmes all need to be equally accessible," he said.

"We’re very close, but the notion of legacy out of this is my key focus.

"How do we make our transportation system even more long-term accessible? How do we get people back and forth to these events and across the city?

"If we can get people to recognise how incredibly exciting the Paralympics are, and how that ties to accessibility, it’s going to change how Angelenos focus in their day-to-day lives because they’re going to appreciate the accessible bus, they’re going to appreciate why there needs to be a ramp at a business.

"If we get everyone involved from all segments of society, we have that change that works for us indefinitely.

"And I think that, from the city’s perspective, is one of our big goals."

LA, along with rivals Budapest, Paris and Rome, is due to present the second part of its Candidature File to the International Olympic Committee by October 7.

Chief bid officer Danny Koblin said a key component of the bid is accessibility, which was one of the many things discussed at an Inclusion Summit during the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

"We view the Paralympics as a huge opportunity for us," he added.

"I think within the community of LA, we’re a community that loves sport and accessibility to Paralympic sport is limited.

"So for us to be able to bring the best Para-sport event in the world to Los Angeles to really increase the awareness and the accessibility for the youth of our city and the youth of the county, and potentially even the youth of the world, is a huge opportunity for us and something that we’re integrating throughout our bid materials."