Bach received full support for 40 Olympic changes – Nordlys

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided Monday the 40 recommendations under “Olympic agenda in 2020″.

The changes are called a strategic map of the future Olympic Movement. Monday voiced all 96 IOC representatives yes to President Thomas Bach recommendations. All 40 points were voted on separately.

Among other unanimously various cities can collaborate on future games. It also means that neighboring countries may join together to become Olympic organizer. It would make it cheaper for small nations to organize toys in the future.

In addition adopted IOC members that the application should be cheaper for candidate cities. Number presentations should be cut to bring down overall costs, and the IOC should take a greater share of the costs yourself.

Future Olympic hosts will also be allowed to propose an additional sports on the program, to make it even more attractive to be seeking and organizer. Before the extra sport really coming into the program, it must be approved by the IOC.

Tak on exercises

Those who have fought for new sports on the Olympic program, got a never so small rally after Monday IOC meeting in Monaco. It opened to allow new sports on the Olympic program, and it will be no ceiling on the number of sports. In contrast, set a ceiling on the number of exercises.

In the future Olympics should be allowed with 310 exercises. If new sports and exercises to enter the program, some of the old sports cutting their exercises.

What most people see as positive is that there will be no upper limit on the number of sports that can be part of the Olympics. That means there are openings for sports such as baseball, softball, squash and karate. Advocates of these sports, which has struggled to get into the Olympic program, cheering.

– This means that the Olympic program in the future is going to be more flexible. It gets more for everyone, says IOC member Franco Carraro.

10,500 participants

It will also put a cap on the number of participants in the Olympics, and it will remain at 10,500 . In that it also gets set a ceiling on the number of exercises, this will not get great practical significance for future Olympic events or -arrangører.

In London in 2012 there were 26 different sports on the program . In future Olympics in the summer, it can get to be as many as 30 different sports, believes Carraro and several other IOC members.

Already from the Olympics in Tokyo, the new reforms to be able to get its effect . The Japanese organizers must decide which sports they will have on the program within three years before the Olympics start.

For the Olympics in Rio about a half years, it is clear that golf and rugby comes as new sports, but others News are not in Brazil.

It is also clear that the number of participants when it comes to the Winter Olympics should not exceed 2900, but it is planned that new sports can get into the market for the winter, if it does not go out of the number of exercises. (© NTB)