(ATR) The six bidders for the 2022 Winter Olympics are gathered in Lausanne for a three-day IOC applicant city seminar.
Officials from the cities – Almaty, Beijing, Krakow, Lviv, Oslo, and Stockholm – will hear detailed IOC presentations about the bidding requirements at the Dec. 4-6 meeting taking place at the Starling Hotel.
Oslo is sending a delegation of 10 people to the Olympic capital, an early indication of how serious the 1952 Winter Olympics host is about landing the 2022 Games. Among them is bid CEO Eli Grimsby.
The IOC is attempting to give as much information to the six bids as possible about the entire bid process to help inform compilation of the application files due March 14.
All of the presentations come on Wednesday and Thursday and are provided to each delegate on a USB stick. Friday is devoted to individual private meetings. Each city will have its own separate meeting room and the IOC groups will move between the rooms for each session.
Details of the observer program for the bidding cities at the Sochi 2014 Olympics will also be announced.
On Wednesday, the rules and ethics of the bidding process will be emphasized.
The themes up for discussion are vision; concept and legacy, including a focus on sport; the athletes and international federations; venue concept/infrastructure; Olympic Villages; and Games services, which covers accommodation, transport, and security.
Thursday’s presentations focus on financial and legal aspects, including Games marketing and financing, Paralympic Games, and media technology with guidances on press and media operations and Olympic Broadcasting Services.
Following the seminar, the six bids will set to work on their application files, which are essentially responses to a detailed IOC questionnaire.
The IOC will shortlist the candidate cities in July.
Submission of candidature files and government guarantees are due in January 2015. In February and March, an IOC Evaluation Commission will visit each candidate city to prepare a technical report to assist IOC members in electing the host city.
This report will be made available to IOC members ahead of a two-day briefing in May and June that provides the members with the opportunity to question the cities directly about their Olympic projects.
The election of the 2022 host city is slated for the Kuala Lumpur IOC Session on July 31, 2015.
Reported by Mark Bisson
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