(ATR) Organizers of the 2019 European Games present one of their last reports ahead of the event next June.
Delegates from the 50 national Olympic committees of Europe are meeting in Marbellla, Spain through Saturday. It’s the annual general assembly of the EOC, European Olympic Committees.
With the Minsk European Games just over seven months away, many NOCs have their last chance for questions to organizers in Minsk and the EOC staff handling the Games. The Belarus capital is the second host for the games. The EOC is now soliciting bids for the 2023 edition.
Coordination Commission chair Spyros Capralos told the assembly that travel to Belarus will be easy with visa-free entry for the games. He also says accommodations are moderately priced.
Minsk CEO George Katalin says the organizing committee has grown from 40 staff at the start of the year to 450 by the end of 2018. The mascot will be unveiled November 29, with ticket sales to launch days later. May 3 is the date set for the lighting of the flame for the games in Rome.
The EOC also heard updates on the 2019 Sarajevo & East Sarajevo Winter European Youth Olympic Festival and the 2019 Baku Summer European Youth Olympic Festival.
The so-called European Sport Model was defended by IOC President Thomas Bach in his speech at the open of the Marbella assembly.
"We need to defend the model as it is in the interest of the European society. We cannot let the market based competition destroy the solidarity mechanism," he told the delegates.
The European Model, a pillar of policy for the EU, maintains that sport should develop at the grassroots level, through the club system practiced across the continent.
The EOC meeting will give the two bids from Europe for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games to test enthusiasm in their own backyard. Stockholm and Milan are the two European contenders which will have observers at the meeting, but they will not make presentations. Calgary, the third bid for 2026, is not included in the European meeting.
All three bids will be allowed to present to the Association of National Olympic Committees general assembly in Tokyo at the end of the month.
The EOC meeting ends Saturday.
Reported by Ed Hula.
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