(ATR) The IOC and 28 summer Olympic sports are exploring how the federations can up their game in delivery of the Tokyo Olympics.
A questionnaire has been issued to the international federations to gauge their feedback on Rio’s trouble-hit Olympic preparations.
The Olympic federations have aided an OCOG like never before following a Rio crisis meeting in spring 2014. In an unprecedented move, the IOC demanded the federations step up their efforts to help Rio organizers after a series of delays threatened the timetable for delivery of Olympic sporting venues.
While ASOIF’s survey of its members is conducted after every Games, this one is different. It will help to establish the blueprint for summer federations to cooperate with Tokyo 2020 and future Games hosts.
ASOIF executive director Andrew Ryan tells Around the Rings that the IFs are being asked to report on their experiences of Rio’s preparations.
"The focus and thoughts are not so much on the issues in Rio but on a new delivery model for Tokyo," he said.
Ryan said it was part of the IOC’s new plan "to change the role of the IFs and use their expertise to cut everyone’s costs down."
"We are now looking at what bits [of Rio’s preparations] the IFs did, and what should be repeated by them and what done by other people."
The summer IFs will be handed more responsibility in contributing to the Tokyo Games.
"What we are trying to do is use that expertise to deliver each individual IF’s own Olympic Games, thus saving the IOC and Games organizers a lot of money."
The 28 sports must return the questionnaires by the end of September. ASOIF leaders will meet with all the federations towards the end of October to finalize its report before submitting it to the IOC.
It will form part of the IOC’s debrief on the Rio Olympics in Tokyo in November.
ASOIF is also involved in the review of the 28 sports’ performances in Rio being undertaken by the IOC’s program commission.
The commission will measure the sports’ events and disciplines against 30 criteria to assess their contribution to the 2016 Olympics.
This process of gathering a wealth of information and statistics from the summer federations will take around six months. Analysis of the data is not expected until spring 2017.
Written by Mark Bisson
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