IOC Votes on Winter Youth Olympics
The ballots are coming in to IOC headquarters that will decide the contest between Innsbruck, Austria and Kuopio, Finland for the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012.
Similar to the process carried out for the selection earlier this year of Singapore for the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games for 2010, IOC members are casting postal ballots.
IOC President Jacques Rogge announces the results in a webcast Dec. 12.
In November, the IOC Executive Board cut the field of four bids in half, based on the findings of an evaluation commission report. Harbin, China and Lillehammer, Norway were the two eliminated.
Innsbruck is banking on its reputation as a winter sports center, including the hosting of two Winter Games. The bid from Finland is supported by experience hosting winter sports events but the proposal does not include the sliding events nor a complete alpine schedule.
2014 Summer YOG Selection Opens
The IOC has sent a bulletin to the world’s NOCs inviting them to bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games. Initial proposals are due in Lausanne, Switzerland in February, with the IOC Executive Board selecting finalists next November or December. The IOC will vote on the host city at the Vancouver Session in February 2010.
Monaco This Week for 2016 Bids
Representatives from the 2016 bid cities will spend time in Monaco this week to attend the annual Peace and Sport Forum. No presentations for the cities, just the chance to mingle with a crowd of international sports leaders and officials that may include a dozen or more IOC members.
Madrid 2016 CEO Mercedes Coghen is attending with international relations director Tania Paessler. The group from Chicago includes Olympian Donna DeVarona, USOC staffer Carolina Bayon and Chicago 2016 senior internationalrelationsadviser Mike Kontos.
Bernard Raizjman, Olympian and Brazilian national team volleyball player, is attending on behalf of Rio De Janeiro.
Attending for Tokyo is Ambassador Mochizuki and Mayumi Kuwata.
2016 Bid Briefs
…Rio de Janeiro searches for a new communications director. Ingo Ostrovsky, who held the post, is now working on preparation of the bid book due in two months. Catherine St. Laurent of London-based Vero is now in Rio de Janeiro to assist with international communications, along with Vero chief Mike Lee.
…Chicago 2016 chairman (and registered Republican) Patrick Ryan joins the inauguration committee for Democratic President-elect Barack Obama. Ryan was named one of four co-chairs of the committee last week, all but one a Chicagoan. The group includes Penny Pritzker, the businesswoman who has spearheaded fundraising for the Chicago bid.
…Will Madrid benefit from new IF presidencies? In the past week, Spaniards have been selected as presidents of three international federations: canoe, hockey and triathlon, but it remains to be seen if this is a boost for Madrid’s bid. IF presidents as a rule must keep neutralamong Olympic bidders and none of the new leaders is an IOC member. Still, the ascendancy of three leaders from Spain shows the country’s influence in Olympic sport. Neither the U.S., Japan nor Brazil hold IF presidencies for sports at the 2012 Olympics. Madrid CEO Mercedes Coghen says the elections of the new IF presidents reflect well upon Spain. "What happened last Saturday with the election of the three Spaniards as presidents of three International Federations is the perfect finale to a great year for Spanish sport."
…Tokyo 2016 bid CEO Ichiro Kono tells Around the Rings that new international flights from Haneda Airport are good for the bid. "The expansion of Haneda Airport will see new routes between the heart of Tokyo and major global destinations developed - enhancing the city’s already world class international accessibility," said Kono.
Seoul, South Korea and Paris are among the new destinations for Haneda, located near the center of Tokyo.
More than 1,000 participants in a national cheerleading contest in Tokyo this week lent their enthusiasm to the 2016 bid while landmark Tokyo Tower celebrates its 50th anniversary and promotes the Tokyo bid with lighting in the colors of the Olympics.
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