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| October 18, 2018 | ||
| IOC announces composition of Evaluation Commission for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 The Evaluation Commission that will assess the Candidate Cities for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2026 Calgary (Canada), Milan/Cortina dAmpezzo (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden) has been appointed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).The Commission is formed of IOC Members and Olympic Movement representatives. Some of these were already part of the Working Group that was responsible for reporting on the feasibility of the Interested Cities that joined the Dialogue Stage of the new, two-stage Candidature Process:
Chair Octavian MORARIU (ROU) IOC Members Kristin KLOSTER AASEN (NOR) Hong ZHANG (CHN) Stakeholder Representatives Roman KUMPOST (CZE) Heike GROESSWANG (GER) Marianna DAVIS (USA) LEE Hee-beom (KOR) José Luis MARCO (ARG)
IOC President Thomas Bach said: The Evaluation Commission members bring with them broad experience for assessing the candidates. They will guarantee that the projects are analysed based on their alignment with the existing long-term plans of their local communities, as outlined by Olympic Agenda 2020/New Norm. Evaluation Commission Chair Octavian Morariu added: Olympic Agenda 2020/New Norm has already helped these three exciting candidatures achieve efficiencies in their planning. And the Commission is committed to working closely with the Cities to ensure that their projects continue to align with the principles of flexibility, legacy and sustainability. With a shortened Candidature Stage and only a single File to be submitted, the Cities can benefit from a simple and cost-efficient process. They arrive at this stage having taken advantage of several months of non-committal dialogue with the IOC, receiving greater support, technical advice, communications assistance and materials to develop their projects. The Candidates need to submit their Files by 11 January 2019, before the Evaluation Commission travels to the Cities in March and April 2019, when its members will be given presentations and visit proposed venues. The Commission will then prepare a report summarising and assessing the essential elements for planning and delivering successful Games. This document will be published prior to the election of the host city at the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. ### The International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers, which is committed to building a better world through sport. It redistributes more than 90 per cent of its income to the wider sporting movement, which means that every day the equivalent of 3.4 million US dollars goes to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world. ### For more information, please contact the IOC Media Relations Team: Broadcast quality footage The IOC Newsroom: http://iocnewsroom.com/ Videos YouTube: www.youtube.com/iocmedia Photos For an extensive selection of photos available shortly after each event, please follow us on Flickr. To request archive photos and footage, please contact our Images team at: images@olympic.org. | ||
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