Memorandum submitted by Mr Craig Reedie
CBE
Following the initial day of evidence on l8
October I hope it will be helpful to the Committee if I outline
some of the rights and responsibilities of the International Olympic
Committee in connection with the organisation of the 2012 Olympic
Games.
GENERAL
The International Olympic Committee are the
rights holder of all rights to the Games and these are "franchised"
to the London Olympic Organising Committee under the Host City
Contract signed by the IOC, the BOA and the Mayor of London. The
IOC are much more involved than ever before in the preparation
for a Games via their Olympic Games Department run by the Olympic
Games Executive Director. The IOC appoints a Coordination Commission
which will meet with LOCOG on a twice yearly basis and there will
be regular meetings with IOC Staff between Co-ordination Commission
meetings. The IOC have developed a sophisticated transfer of knowledge
system and much excellent advice and guidance is made available
to LOCOG, almost on a daily basis.
OLYMPIC CHARTER
Under the Olympic Charter the Games are awarded
to a City, not to a Country. All sports on the programme should
be held in the City selected with the regular exception of Sailing
and the agreed exception of Football which is always spread around
the Country.
HOST CITY
CONTRACT
After each edition of the Game the IOC reviews
the terms of the Host City Contract and alters this in the light
of the most recent experience. The Contract for London in 2012
deals in detail with the problems of ambush marketing. The IOC
are very concerned to offer their world wide partners the protection
in the Host City and Country which is guaranteed under the long
running contracts with these partners. This area of activity becomes
more complicated with each Games experience.
PREPARATION CAMPS
A number of the National Olympic Committees
around the world will wish to come to Britain before 2012 for
training purposes. There is no commitment on behalf of LOCOG to
provide facilities, although this may become a feature of a London
Games. At the moment LOCOG will probably restrict its efforts
to creating an inventory of available facilities as an information
service to these NOCs and the inventory will almost certainly
list facilities in every part of the country.
September 2005
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