ATR) The IOC will today walk the five candidate cities for the 2024 Olympics through the bid process in a video conference session.
Representatives from Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome, confirmed last week as the field of 2024 bidders, are taking part in the first IOC meeting of the two-year campaign.
IOC spokesperson Emmanuelle Moreau tells Around the Rings that it's billed as "an introduction session" with the cities. The IOC administration will make a presentation "by video conference in the interest of cost reduction" with the five bidders and NOC officials simultaneously.
She said the aim was to explain in detail the candidature process and the four major documents released to the cities on Sept. 16, which total around 500 pages. One deals with the 2024 bidding process, there is a candidature questionnaire and two host city contract documents, one on its principles, the other on operational requirements.
"Essentially, this walks the cities through the next two years until the Session in Lima," she said. The IOC host city vote is scheduled for September 2017.
IOC president Thomas Bach will deliver a welcome video message at the beginning of today’s session, which starts at 16:00 CET to ensure a reasonable start time for Los Angeles bid team.
With Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi in PyeongChang this week as part of the IOC Coordination Commission visit to the 2018 Olympic host city, Jacqueline Barrett, associate director of Olympic Games in charge of bid city relations, will chair video conference proceedings in Lausanne.
The IOC does not expect the 2024 bidders to make specific presentations.
Budapest 2024 tells ATR thatIOC member Paul Schmitt, NOC and bid international relations director Zsigmond Nagy, deputy mayor of Budapest Balázs Szeneczey and government commissioner Fürjes Balázswill participate along with techical staff.
Moreau said the IOC has scheduled individual follow-up video or conference calls with each city/NOC in the coming days to answer their questions about the revamped bidding process.
Rome 2024 tells ATR that it has a conference call with the IOC on Friday morning at which its technical team will "seek clarifications on what was presented Wednesday".
The next major milestone in the long haul to Lima is the individual workshops slated to take place the week of Nov. 16 in Lausanne.
The IOC has set out a detailed timetable for the three bidding phases: Vision, Games Concept and Strategy; Governance, Legal and Venue Funding; and Games Delivery, Experience & Venue Legacy.
Candidate cities are requested to deliver their first significant bid dossier – covering Vision, Games Concept and Strategy – on Feb. 17.
Reported by Mark Bisson
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