Monte Carlo (dpa) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will implement its reform package immediately by starting to advise potential bidders for the 2024 Games from next month onwards.
"If all goes according to plan we want to start on
January 15," IOC president Thomas Bach said Tuesday. "We will listen and then we will give the candidates the desired advice."
An extraordinary IOC Session on Monday passed 40 recommendations compiled by Bach in his Agenda 2020 proposals to make the Olympic Movement fit for the future.
The reform package includes an easier and cheaper bid process with a focus on local characteristics and sustainability, the possibility of holding events in another city or country and setting up an Olympic TV channel.
The United States intends to bid for the 2024 Games with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston or Washington, while Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Budapest and Doha are other likely candidates. Germany is also in the frame with Hamburg or Berlin, pending a final decision by the national Olympic Committee and a referendum in the winning city.
The official 2024 bid phase starts in September 2015 and the host city will be elected in Lima as the Peruvian capital was elected by the session, 54-30 over Helsinki, to host its 130th session in 2017 when the ballot takes place.
It was second time lucky for Lima after losing out against Kuala Lumpur for the 2015 session, where either Beijing or Almaty, Kazakhstan, will be elected hosts of the 2022 Winter Games. The 2016 assembly takes place in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the Olympics there.
Lima currently hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and has also been picked for the 2015 International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting, and the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
On the sports side, Lima will host the 2019 Pan-American Games.
The session on Tuesday also formally recognized Kosovo as the 205th full IOC member, allowing the nation to send a team to the Games for the first time at Rio 2016.
"This is one big day, one historical day for athletes of Kosovo," Kosovo Olympic Committee (NOC) chief Besim Hasani said, speaking of "a new era for the Olympic movement in Kosovo."
The Balkan country declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognized as a country by 108 of the 193 United Nations member states. Serbia does not accept its independence.
The Kosovo NOC was established in 1992 and represents more than 30 sports.
Thirteen of the sports are Olympic sports, six of them fully recognized by the respective international federations (table tennis, archery, judo, sailing, weightlifting, modern pentathlon), and the other seven (wrestling, boxing, curling, taekwondo, gymnastics, skiing, handball) provisional or associate members.
The IOC also presented plans for a new headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to be built until 2020 at the site of its current location on Lake Geneva for around 160 million Swiss francs (163 million dollars).
A bigger headquarters is needed for the growing IOC staff which is also to include personnel for the Olympic TV channel.
On the final day of the session the IOC granted ski federation boss Gian-Franco Kasper, 70, an age limit extension until 2018; and elected as honorary IOC members among others French ski legend Jean-Claude Killy, former Saudi Arabia Olympic committee chief Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd Abdulaziz, and India's Raja Randhir Singh.
"If all goes according to plan we want to start on
January 15," IOC president Thomas Bach said Tuesday. "We will listen and then we will give the candidates the desired advice."
An extraordinary IOC Session on Monday passed 40 recommendations compiled by Bach in his Agenda 2020 proposals to make the Olympic Movement fit for the future.
The reform package includes an easier and cheaper bid process with a focus on local characteristics and sustainability, the possibility of holding events in another city or country and setting up an Olympic TV channel.
The United States intends to bid for the 2024 Games with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston or Washington, while Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Budapest and Doha are other likely candidates. Germany is also in the frame with Hamburg or Berlin, pending a final decision by the national Olympic Committee and a referendum in the winning city.
The official 2024 bid phase starts in September 2015 and the host city will be elected in Lima as the Peruvian capital was elected by the session, 54-30 over Helsinki, to host its 130th session in 2017 when the ballot takes place.
It was second time lucky for Lima after losing out against Kuala Lumpur for the 2015 session, where either Beijing or Almaty, Kazakhstan, will be elected hosts of the 2022 Winter Games. The 2016 assembly takes place in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the Olympics there.
Lima currently hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and has also been picked for the 2015 International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting, and the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
On the sports side, Lima will host the 2019 Pan-American Games.
The session on Tuesday also formally recognized Kosovo as the 205th full IOC member, allowing the nation to send a team to the Games for the first time at Rio 2016.
"This is one big day, one historical day for athletes of Kosovo," Kosovo Olympic Committee (NOC) chief Besim Hasani said, speaking of "a new era for the Olympic movement in Kosovo."
The Balkan country declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognized as a country by 108 of the 193 United Nations member states. Serbia does not accept its independence.
The Kosovo NOC was established in 1992 and represents more than 30 sports.
Thirteen of the sports are Olympic sports, six of them fully recognized by the respective international federations (table tennis, archery, judo, sailing, weightlifting, modern pentathlon), and the other seven (wrestling, boxing, curling, taekwondo, gymnastics, skiing, handball) provisional or associate members.
The IOC also presented plans for a new headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to be built until 2020 at the site of its current location on Lake Geneva for around 160 million Swiss francs (163 million dollars).
A bigger headquarters is needed for the growing IOC staff which is also to include personnel for the Olympic TV channel.
On the final day of the session the IOC granted ski federation boss Gian-Franco Kasper, 70, an age limit extension until 2018; and elected as honorary IOC members among others French ski legend Jean-Claude Killy, former Saudi Arabia Olympic committee chief Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd Abdulaziz, and India's Raja Randhir Singh.
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