Monte Carlo (dpa) - The host city of the 2024 Olympics will be elected in Lima as the Peruvian capital was on Tuesday picked by the International Olympic Committee to host its 130th session in 2017.
Lima beat the only other candidate Helsinki 54-30 in the ballot by IOC members at an extraordinary session in Monaco.
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 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 referendum.
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.
The National Olympic Committee of Kosovo 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 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.
Also on Tuesday, 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.
The IOC Session had Monday passed a wide range of reforms, the Agenda 2020 of president Thomas Bach, to make the Olympic Movement fit for the future.
Sylvia Schenk from the German branch of Transparency International welcomed the decisions but said it marked only "a stage win."
"The race is long, at least as long as the Tour de France, because the real work on many aspects only starts now. A lot needs to be worked out and then implemented. That is not so easy at an international level."
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.
Lima beat the only other candidate Helsinki 54-30 in the ballot by IOC members at an extraordinary session in Monaco.
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 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 referendum.
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.
The National Olympic Committee of Kosovo 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 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.
Also on Tuesday, 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.
The IOC Session had Monday passed a wide range of reforms, the Agenda 2020 of president Thomas Bach, to make the Olympic Movement fit for the future.
Sylvia Schenk from the German branch of Transparency International welcomed the decisions but said it marked only "a stage win."
"The race is long, at least as long as the Tour de France, because the real work on many aspects only starts now. A lot needs to be worked out and then implemented. That is not so easy at an international level."
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.
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