Olympic Agenda 2020
Approved recommendations:
- Shape the bidding process as an invitation
- Evaluate bid cities by assessing key opportunities and risks
- Reduce the cost of bidding
- Include sustainability in all aspects of the Olympic Games
- Include sustainability within the Olympic Movement’s daily operations
- Cooperate closely with other sports event organisers
- Strengthen relationships with organisations managing sport for people with different abilities
- Forge relationships with professional leagues
- Set a framework for the Olympic programme
- Move from a sport-based to an event-based programme
- Foster gender equality
- Reduce the cost and reinforce the flexibility of Olympic Games management
- Maximise synergies with Olympic Movement stakeholders
- Strengthen the 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism
- Change the philosophy to protecting clean athletes
- Leverage the IOC USD 20 million fund to protect clean athletes
- Honour clean athletes
- Strengthen support to athletes
- Launch an Olympic Channel
- Enter into strategic partnerships
- Strengthen IOC advocacy capacity
- Spread Olympic values-based education
- Engage with communities
- Evaluate the Sport for Hope programme
- Review Youth Olympic Games positioning
- Further blend sport and culture
- Comply with basic principles of good governance
- Support autonomy
- Increase transparency
- Strengthen the IOC Ethics Commission independence
- Ensure compliance
- Strengthen ethics
- Further involve sponsors in “Olympism in Action” programmes
- Develop a global licensing programme
- Foster TOP sponsors’ engagement with NOCs
- Extend access to the Olympic brand for non-commercial use
- Address IOC membership age limit
- Implement a targeted recruitment process
- Foster dialogue with society and within the Olympic Movement
- Review scope and composition of IOC commissions
Read more about the Olympic Agenda 2020:
- Olympic Agenda 2020 unveiled
- Olympic Agenda 2020: 20+20 Recommendations [pdf]
- Olympic Agenda 2020: Context and Background [pdf]
- IOC Session unanimously approves Olympic Agenda 2020
Videos
Watch ‘What Do The Olympic Games Mean to You?’ on YouTube
Watch ‘What Makes The Olympic Games Unique?’ on YouTube
IOC Press releases
- IOC Session unanimously approves Olympic Agenda 2020
- IOC announces Olympic Golden Rings award winners
127th IOC Session, Monaco, 8-9 December 2014
- General information
- Photos [IOC on Flickr]
- Videos [IOC on YouTube]
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