{"id":797269,"date":"2019-07-01T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:32:00","slug":"ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC to change process of Olympic bid races, host elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7115689381933\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-368216-653\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jean-Christophe Bott \/ Keystone via AP | International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, left, speaks with Australian IOC member John Coates, right, during the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 25.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"4\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"19\">\n<p><strong>International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, left, speaks with Australian IOC member John Coates, right, during the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 25.<\/strong><br \/>Jean-Christophe Bott \/ Keystone via AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb.jpg\" alt=\"International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, left, speaks with Australian IOC member John Coates, right, during the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 25.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Philippe Lopez \/ AP | Members of Milan-Cortina delegation celebrate after winning the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 24.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Members of Milan-Cortina delegation celebrate after winning the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 24.<\/strong><br \/>Philippe Lopez \/ AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/Switzerland_IOC_Session_49356-ef7bb-1.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Milan-Cortina delegation celebrate after winning the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 24.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">LAUSANNE, Switzerland \u2014 Olympics hosted in multiple cities or countries. Bidders pro-actively invited. Candidates recommended with possibly no opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Radical changes in how and when Olympic hosts are picked were voted in Wednesday as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) looks to avoid negative headlines and angering local taxpayers following referendum losses and excessive spending on white-elephant venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stung by recent public votes in Europe and Canada, the IOC agreed that future bidders could need to win a referendum before entering a race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe cannot, I suggest, continue to be damaged as we have in the past,\u201d veteran IOC member John Coates said, presenting reforms already tested in the 2026 Winter Games contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Last week, Milan-Cortina in northern Italy beat Stockholm-Are, which tied Sweden to Latvia\u2019s bobsled track, in a campaign where support from national and city governments was often shaky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Future Olympic bidders will be required to use existing and temporary venues and infrastructure, while being steered away from costly construction projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A new, flexible campaign timetable will end the Olympic Charter rule requiring hosts to be voted on seven years in advance of a Summer or Winter Games. That rule already had to be waived in 2017, allowing Los Angeles to be picked 11 years in advance of the 2028 Summer Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There might not be an election at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A key part of the new process is creating new Olympic panels \u2014 one each for Summer and Winter Games \u2014 which will recommend one or more candidates for an election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt can come to a point where there is only one candidate being proposed,\u201d IOC President Thomas Bach said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It chimes with Bach\u2019s wish to avoid \u201ctoo many losers\u201d \u2014 a phrase first heard during the 2024 race as it became a double award. Paris got the 2024 Games, while Los Angeles got 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The new panels will be empowered to have \u201cpermanent ongoing dialogue\u201d with potential bidders and pro-actively approach preferred hosts. They will report first to the Bach-chaired executive board, which will pick the members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Coates said the process targets \u201cdeveloping a significant pipeline\u201d of candidates even beyond the next bidding contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The IOC was not being \u201ccontrol freaks\u201d demanding legal guarantees far in advance, said Richard Pound, the longest-serving member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOnce you make a decision on the host city, millions of people start to make plans based on that and hundreds of millions of dollars are committed to it,\u201d Pound said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The IOC\u2019s reformed approach to bidding followed Bach\u2019s election in September 2013 and after Russia\u2019s $51 billion spending on venues, infrastructure and budget overruns for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In other business Wednesday, Athens was chosen to host the IOC\u2019s 2021 meeting. That Session, from June 24-26, will include a presidential election with Bach currently expected to get a final four-year term unopposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">IOC news bites<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">* After French authorities this week said former IOC member Lamine Diack would stand trial on corruption charges, Bach suggested he could do little more to help ensure Diack\u2019s son, Papa Massata, is extradited from Senegal. The younger Diack is wanted to face trial on charges also linked to alleged vote-buying in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Games hosting contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe are not involved in this,\u201d said Bach, who wrote months ago to Senegal\u2019s President Macky Sall requesting help. Senegal is hosting the 2022 Youth Olympics in Dakar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">* Asked if Tahiti could stage surfing medal events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Bach said he prefers athletes to have \u201cmore closeness to the heart of the Games\u201d when there are options. France could stage surfing at Biarritz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">* Former Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Erick Thohir was among 10 new members elected. Thohir, also the former chairman of Inter Milan, is president of the Indonesian Olympic committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other new members include: Laura Chinchilla, the president of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014; Credit Suisse bank CEO Tidjane Thiam; and Narinder Batra, the president of the Indian Olympic body. Batra also leads the Lausanne-based governing body of field hockey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The biggest voting total, and loudest applause, went to Greek Olympic president Spyros Capralos. In 2012, the IOC formally warned Capralos after he was implicated in black market ticket sales for the London Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">* Two changes were made to the 15-member IOC executive board: Prince Feisal al Hussein of Jordan was elected to replace Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden, whose eight-year term ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nawal el Moutawakel of Morocco, the 400-meter hurdles gold medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was elected to join the board when Willi Kaltschmitt of Guatemala leaves in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/ioc-to-change-process-of-olympic-bid-races-host-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, left, speaks with Australian IOC member John Coates, right, during the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 25.Jean-Christophe Bott \/ Keystone via AP Members of Milan-Cortina delegation celebrate after winning the bid to host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:08:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}