The Daily - Issue #5 - Friday 11 April 2014

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SportAccord focuses on Members’ requirements

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friday, april 11, 2014

issue 5

President’s plans for expansion

SUPPORT: IOC President Thomas Bach

ioc launches body to aid rio A high-level, decision-making body backed by dedicated task forces and a new, local project manager is to drive the progress to rescue the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The body, announced by IOC President Thomas Bach at SportAccord Convention, will comprise members of the Organising Committee and different levels of government in Brazil and its work will be co-ordinated by the IOC. It will be supported by task forces to be set up within weeks to tackle issues around construction, operations and public engagement. The IOC will also recruit a local project manager

with experience in construction who will monitor progress with venues and infrastructure on a daily basis. Bach said any question of blame would wait until after the Games. He said: “We need all our energy because we all share the concerns to make the Games successful and then, after the closing ceremony of a successful Games, we can go back to this question and speak about responsibility.” The introduction of special measures for Rio comes after the summer Games IFs voiced concerns this week within ASOIF and direct to the IOC Executive Board.

Bach said: “We will enhance the collaboration with the IFs and other key stakeholders in the way that we did for Sochi, where we had dedicated project teams from different IFs going to Sochi on a regular basis. “We will follow that example for Rio because it proved to be very successful for Sochi.” Bach said the measures had been well received by the Mayor of Rio and the Organising Committee. He said: “The measures were taken as they were meant; a strong commitment by the IOC to the success of these Games. “We believe that Rio can and will deliver an excellent Games if the appropriate actions are taken now.”

Plans for a bigger, better and more influential SportAccord Convention were unveiled by President Marius L. Vizer as he outlined his vision for 2015. Vizer revealed that three cities have lodged bids to host the event, with inspection visits taking place in the coming weeks, but he made it clear that candidates Abu Dhabi, Durban and Sochi would need to deliver something on a different scale – a “world sport summit” with potentially as many as 10,000 people. Mainstream media, leading marketing companies and the biggest sports suppliers in the world would all be invited as SportAccord Convention moves to a new level as part of a long-term strategy for the next six years. Vizer said : “We have a very good asset for sport and an event which gives opportunities to sport organisations, business, the media and a lot of other entities. We will have a strategy to plan until 2020. Then the biggest companies who are interested in being our partners can make a long-term strategy in partnership with us – big companies from energy, industry, banking, insurance and other sectors.” A SportAccord Convention briefing will take place today immediately after the General Assembly, which is scheduled to end at 13.00. SportAccord President Marius L Vizer will be joined by Director General Vlad Marinescu and Managing Director Nis Hatt in the Press Briefing Room at the Susesi Convention Centre.


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