Olympic Updates

This blog has not been updated in 6 months.. Here are two major updates at the end of 2014.

Earlier this month - On Dec. 7 and 8 in Monaco, the Olympics 2020 agenda was passed unanimously by the IOC.

The biggest change would be the IOC allowing two cities within the host country to host the games, or two countries together can host the games. This was passed so smaller countries could host the games. It was also passed to lower the cost of future games.

A proposal was passed in the Olympics 2020 agenda to reform the bidding process. Bidding will be more like an invitation process, there will be less presentations made by games bidding cities to lower the cost, along with more costs incurred by the IOC related to this process. Cities are invited to present an Olympic bid that matches their economic and long term needs.

Sustainability of the bids will be stressed as several cities pulled out of the running to host the 2022 winter Olympic games because of cost. Emphasis on bids will appeal to cities that already have the facilities to host the games instead of the cost to build new facilities that rarely are used after the games by former host cities.

Also the IOC voted to cap the amount of Individual sport disciplines and athletes but allowing the number of sports to grow from the current 28 sports allowed.

An anti-discriminatory clause was updated to include sexual orientation in response to the Russian exclusion of gay athletes at the 2014 Sochi games.

An all Olympic channel will be launched at some time in the future.



The USOC has decided to bid on the 2024 summer Olympic games and the four host cities are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Boston. A decision on which USA city that will represent the USA in the bidding process on the 2024 Summer Olympic games will be made in January 2015. Each city made hour long presentations earlier this month. A decision by the IOC will come in 2017.