Summer 2024 Bids Submit Second Candidature File -- Monday Memo

(ATR) Also: Olympic summit to review anti-doping systems; Olympins Show begins in Atlanta.

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(ATR) The four cities bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics are nearing the finish line.

Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome will submit the second part of their candidature files on Oct. 7 to the International Olympic Committee.

Part two of the bid dossiers contains information regarding how the bid cities will finance their projects, the legal mechanisms behind the bids, the governance structures as well as private and public support for the projects.

The IOC will then have two months to determine whether each city will be allowed to move on to the third and final stage of the race beginning in January 2017. The third stage of the bid race focuses on Games delivery, experience and venue legacy.

The Rome 2024 bid may have to drop from the race before submitting its second candidature file due to lack of support from the city council and mayor. Italian Olympic Committee leaders are meeting with IOC president Thomas Bach on Oct. 4 to determine how the city may stay in the race despite the local opposition.

Olympic Summit to Review Anti-Doping Policies

The IOC will bring leaders from the Olympic Movement together in Lausanne on Oct. 8 for an Olympic Summit.

The success of the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics will be discussed as well as the movement’s anti-doping policies through the World Anti-Doping Agency. At the Olympic Summit in October 2015, IOC president Thomas Bach called for an entirely independent anti-doping system. This year’s meeting will reinforce that opinion and explore ways to make it a possibility.

The summit will welcome the IOC executive board and presidents of six International Federations including football, gymnastics, aquatics, athletics, skiing and bobsleigh. Also attending will be presidents of ANOC, ASOIF and AIWOF, presidents of the United States, Russian and Chinese Olympic Committees as well as the presidents of WADA, SportAccord and the International Paralympic Committee.

These leaders will review the current anti-doping policies in place and how the Olympic and Paralympic Movements can better protect its clean athletes. These topics were debated thoroughly in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Games due to the Russian doping scandal that resulted in a partial ban of Russian athletes from the Olympics and a total ban at the Paralympics.

Olympin Collectors Memorabilia Show Comes to Atlanta

The 35th annual Olympin Collectors’ Memorabilia Show will begin at the Omni Hotel Oct. 7 in downtown Atlanta.

The gathering marks the first major pin event since the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics concluded and organizers expect a diverse group of attendees from around the world.

The show will also pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Atlanta 1996 Summer Games. Pin trading has been a popular hobby in Atlanta since those Games with traders meeting at the Atlanta Varsity once a month.

The first night of the show will feature a banquet dinner and will be preceded by a silent auction sponsored by RR Auctions, a leader in auctioning rare Olympic artifacts.

The pin show will conclude on Oct. 9.

Written by Kevin Nutley

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