They were joined by long-time Australian Olympic official John Coates, now an IOC vice president who shaped the fast-track selection process two years ago that now rewarded his Brisbane bid. The first-time format was designed to cut campaign costs, give the IOC more control in dealing discreetly with preferred candidates and removed the risk of vote-buying.
Cricket was played once at the Olympics, at the Paris Games. The next three Summer Games hosts — starting with Paris in — are now secured in wealthy and traditional Olympic nations without any of the trio facing a contested vote. The IOC and its hands-on president, Thomas Bach, have torn up the template of traditional bidding campaigns and hosting votes to lock down preferred cities with the minimum risk. Paris and LA were competing for until Bach and Coates oversaw including the rights in an unprecedented double award four years ago.
The future hosts offer stability for the IOC which was stung by the two previous Summer Games contests being tainted by allegations of vote-buying when multiple cities were on the ballot.
The Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the postponed Tokyo Olympics are still under investigation by French prosecutors. Tokyo is expected to clock the viewership impression of more than 4. Out of this amount, USD 5. But, how exactly Japan, or, more specifically, Tokyo was elected to host the Olympic Games in in the first place, which were the other cities in contention and what was the process followed in electing the Olympic host city.
Let us dive into the details of all these questions…. As per the procedure followed by International Olympic Committee IOC , the process to elect the host city for the Olympics generally begins at least years prior to that Olympic year and the final decision is generally made by all the member nations of the IOC along with the executive board of IOC after a detailed analysis of all the bids received, over the period of 2 years.
While the procedure has been updated significantly as per the new IOC guidelines, we will focus mainly on how it was used to award the Olympics to Tokyo. There are few conditions that need to be fulfilled by the candidate city in order for NOC to consider its candidature valid:.
Approval from the country's NOC is mandatory for the city to submit its bid. In case there are several potential candidatures in the same country for the same edition of the Olympic Games, NOC reserves the right to decide upon the one city that will represent that country during the bidding process. These guarantees include many assurances like no other event will take place during the Olympic games or one week before or after it, along with a guarantee that all the Olympic-related goods will be imported without any customs duty.
Even though all the six interested cities filed their application form for the race to host the games, Rome backed out at the last moment citing the difficult economic situation which prevented the Italian government from providing the necessary financial guarantees as required by IOC. The application files and the guarantees received from all the interesting cities are then scrutinized thoroughly by IOC during the period of months, and based on their assessment, the official announcement regarding the official candidate cities is made by the Executive Board of IOC.
This announcement is usually based on the critical assessment of the application files. IOC scores all the applicants based on different parameters to assess the quality and feasibility of the applicant cities. In the bidding process, after the initial scrutiny, in May, it was announced that Baku and Qatar would miss out on the next stage, and Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul will make it to the list of official candidate cities for hosting the Olympic Games.
The detailed and transparent analysis of points scored by each of the cities on every parameter was made public by IOC. All the official candidate cities are then required to present a detailed proposal regarding their Olympic project, which is captured in the candidature file of each city. The file essentially captures the blueprint of the Olympic dream realized by the respective city across 14 themes of the IOCs candidature procedure and questionnaire.
The overall concept of the games, legal, political, financial and marketing aspects of the game are a few of the other facets that are covered in this candidature files. The files are normally presented in English as well as the French language in a specifically drafted format as specified by the IOC.
The file presented by the Tokyo organizing committee was a report spread across pages and three volumes. The submission of these files is then followed by the visit by the IOC evaluation committee to all the candidate cities within a span of a month, during which it basically takes stock of the on-ground situation.
Each city makes a most of this opportunity to explain why it wishes to be selected to organize the Olympic games and how it offers a unique vision and opportunity to contribute to the Olympic movement. This meeting involved a technical briefing from each city, followed by a second day for members to ask any follow-up questions they had and view plans and models of each bid. On 7 September , the cities each had 45 minutes to give a presentation to the Session, followed by 15 minutes for questions.
The IOC members then voted and took the important decision of electing the new host city. The eligible IOC members are asked to vote. In each round each participating IOC member may vote for only one city.
As per the voting regulations, only those IOC members who are not nationals of countries for which there is a candidate city in a round are permitted to vote.
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