IOC’s Coordination Commission for the Rio 2016 Games back in town for second official visit
The Commission will meet with the Organising Committee and federal, state and city governments’ representatives as well as seeing Games-related works
Chaired by Morocco’s Olympic champion Nawal El Moutawakel, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Rio 2016 Games starts Tuesday, June 7, a three-day programme of meetings and presentations at various worksites in the city for its second official visit to Rio de Janeiro.
The Coordination Commission visits the host city once a year until four years from the Games, when the visits become twice yearly until the Games are held. The Commission’s full meetings are supplemented by regular Project Review visits of smaller IOC teams involving the Commission Chairperson, selected members of the Commission and members of the IOC administration – as the recent late April meetings.
The Coordination Commission for the Games
For every Olympic Games the IOC forms a Coordination Commission that visits the host city on a regular basis to assist and monitor the work of the Organising Committee. The Commission for the Rio 2016 Games was appointed in January 2010.
The Coordination Commission comprises representatives of the five continents, all of them with prior experience in Olympic Games Evaluation or Coordination Commissions or in Organising Committees of the world’s largest sporting event. The group represents various sections of the Olympic Movement, such as athletes, National Olympic Committees and International Federations, ensuring the coordination needed for making the event a success.
After making history as the first African woman to claim an Olympic gold medal, by winning the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, El Moutawakel became the first woman to chair an IOC Coordination Commission.
Besides her and IOC Olympic Games Executive Director, Switzerland’s Gilbert Felli, the other Rio 2016 Commission’s members are Alex Gilady (ISR), Alexander Popov (RUS), Beatrice Allen (GAM), Ching-Kuo Wu (TPE), Francesco Ricci Bitti (ITA), Greg Hartung (AUS), Gunilla Lindberg (SWE), John D. Coates (AUS), Julio César Maglione (URU), Nat Indrapana (THA), Nicole Hoevertsz (ARU), Patrick Joseph Hickey (IRL), Richard L. Carrión (PUR), Sergey Bubka (UKR), Timothy Tsun Ting Fok (HKG) and Willi Kaltschmitt Luján (GUA).
