On the Scene in Lausanne -- IOC Executive Board Meets, 2012 YOG Locale Picked Friday

Namibia's Frank Fredericks will represent athletes at his first IOC EB meeting as chairman of the IOC Athletes' Commission. (Getty Images)The IOC Executive Board's final meeting of the year starts today with contributions coming from its newest members. Namibia's Frank Fredericks and Morocco's Nawal El Moutawakel are participating in their first EB meeting.

Since August, Fredericks has been chairman of the IOC Athletes’ Commission and will represent the voice of the athletes within the IOC’s decision-making body. El Moutawakel, the minister of youth and sports in Morocco, is chair of the evaluation commission for the 2016 Olympics.

Members of the EB have a long list of agenda items to get through at the Dec. 10 to 11 meetings.

The program includes reports from the IOC administration and various commissions. The EB will spend around three hours meeting with the Olympic Congress Commission Wednesday.

Hein Verbruggen, chair of the IOC's coordination commission for Beijing, will report on the 2008 Olympics, a presentation that will likely include input from the recent week-long Beijing debrief in London.

Rene Fasel will brief the EB on Vancouver's progress, while Denis OswaldMorocco's Nawal El Moutawakel leads the evaluation commission for the 2016 Olympics and will attend her first EB meeting this week. (Getty Images)and Jean-Claude Killy will offer updates on preparations for London 2012 and Sochi 2014 respectively.

The sports program of the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games will be among the issues scrutinized in the EB's meeting with Sergey Bubka, chair of the IOC's Singapore watchdog, and Ser Miang Ng, chair of the organizing body for the Games.

The EB is also expected to take decisions on the three pending doping cases from the Beijing Games and to be updated on ongoing disciplinary procedures.

A press conference with IOC President Jacques Rogge at 7 p.m. (CET) on Thursday wraps up the two days of meetings.

The week ends with the announcement of the host city for the first Winter Youth Olympic Games. Rogge will unveil the result in a live webcast at 12 p.m. (CET) on Friday.

The Austrian city of Innsbruck, a two-time Winter Olympics host, is favored to beat Finland's Kuopio. Innsbruck was said to present “the least risk to the IOC” in an evaluation report that shortlisted the two finalists last month.

With reporting from Mark Bisson.

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