2012 Daily - Day 3 - SportAccord Convention Quebec City 2012

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your guide to what’s happening today at the Québec city sportaccord convention www.sportaccordconvention.com

wednesday, may 23, 2012

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issue 3

watch ioc on screens!

elected Francesco Ricci Bitti and Ching-kuo Wu

Key appointments on big election day

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rancesco Ricci Bitti and Ching-kuo Wu were elected to key positions within the international sports movement during the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) General Assembly at SportAccord Convention yesterday. Ricci Bitti, the President of the International Tennis Federation, was elected unopposed to become the new President of ASOIF from January 1, 2013, succeeding Denis Oswald, who is President of Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron, the International Rowing Federation. In the run-off for Oswald’s place on the International Olympic Committee Executive Board,

Ching-kuo Wu, President of the International Boxing Association, was backed by 20 votes to eight against fellow candidate Pat McQuaid, President of Union Cycliste Internationale, the International Cycling Union. “I’ve been with the IOC very long,” Wu said following a tumultuous afternoon. “Many of the members have been my colleagues for some time. Everybody knows me and what I did for boxing, and people have seen that. “All my work is concentrated on the development of sports and for the Olympic Movement.” Wu secured the chance to take a place on the IOC Executive Board due to 70-year-old Ricci Bitti’s IOC membership expiring this year. “I believe a stronger IF

means a stronger Olympic movement and we have to co-operate to make the role of the IF, especially in the preparations of the Games, clearer,” Ricci Bitti said. “We are a little bit in between the organising committee and the IOC.” One of Ricci Bitti’s top priorities will be to help continue the evolution of the Olympic Charter. “They did a great step in 2001 after the Salt Lake City problem, but since then, nothing has been done really strongly,” he said. Other matters on the agenda at the Assembly included presentations from organisers of the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games as well as the organisers of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games.

Organisers of the SportAccord Convention have urged delegates to watch this afternoon’s International Olympic Committee announcement of the Candidate Cities for the 2020 Olympic Games on screens around the Convention, rather than try to squeeze into the Conference Hall. The announcement is scheduled for 6.30pm, but with interest having gone through the roof, organisers are concerned that the announcement will attract an over-capacity crowd to Conference Hall 400C. So the message is… watch it on the TVs! The cities of Baku, Doha, Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo will discover whether they have made it on to the shortlist of Candidate Cities for the Games in eight years’ time. The announcement, which will also be attended by scores of members of the international media, will represent the climax of an unmissable day at SportAccord Convention. The conference sessions will get underway at 10am with a keynote address from Charlie Denson, President, Nike Brand, NIKE Inc, who, as readers of yesterday’s edition of The Daily will be aware, will offer an engaging insight into the strategy of one of the world’s most famous companies. A plenary panel session, including stellar speakers such as Peter Moore, the Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts (interview on p4 of The  Continued on P2


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