(ATR) Bidding officials from Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome will take part in a series of IOC workshops this week.
The 2024 candidate cities are meeting at Olympic Broadcasting Services headquarters in Madrid on April 6 to 7 for discussions dedicated to the Olympic Village and the IBC/MPC.
"These workshops complement the ones organised in November last year as part of stage 1 of the candidature process which focuses on Vision, Games Concept and Strategy," an IOC spokesman tells Around the Rings.
"The Olympic Village and the IBC/MPC are two specific areas where candidate cities expressed the need to receive further information in order to find the best technical solutions while developing their Olympic project."
The meetings, led by Jacqueline Barrett, associate director of Olympic candidatures, and attended by IOC experts, "will aim to review best practices and discuss how these can be applied to each individual project," the spokesman said.
Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi was heavily involved in the IOC’s first bidding summit in Lausanne in November and indicated to ATR at the time that another workshop would be held to focus on non-competition venues.
The bids sent 10-person delegations to the November workshop. Similar-size bid delegations are heading to Madrid.
Rome 2024, for example, will be represented by director general Diana Bianchedi, international relations chief Simone Perillo, representatives of the city and municipality and technical advisors. Communications chief Fabio Guadagnini is also attending.
Guadagnini said the IOC "will give us the information we need to make a good plan around such important venues for the bid".
Following the submission of the first bid books to the IOC in February, the IOC Evaluation Commission chaired by Frank Fredericks is currently evaluating the dossiers. The panel will provide a so-called ‘dashboard report’ to the Executive Board meeting in June. The EB will decide which cities should proceed to the next phase but is unlikely to cut any.
The IOC has no plans to shortlist cities. Unless a city falls dramatically short of requirements, Thomas Bach hopes they will all make it to the host city vote in Lima, Peru in September 2017.
Speaking to ATR in November about the dashboard report – a new innovation for this bidding process – Dubi said: "The main task for the executive board will be to take stock of each city, where they stand and whether they are meeting all the requirements to go ahead. This will be a dashboard report, simply to provide a high-level overview of each case to the EB."
Dubi said his Olympic Games department officials would then sit down with each of cities and analyse with them the dashboard report: "If there are any points to be improved, they will have the feedback and that allows them to progress on more solid ground."
Reported by Mark Bisson
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