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Olympic Agenda 2020

Approved recommendations:

1. Shape the bidding process as an invitation
2. Evaluate bid cities by assessing key opportunities and risks
3. Reduce the cost of bidding
4. Include sustainability in all aspects of the Olympic Games
5. Include sustainability within the Olympic Movement’s daily operations
6. Cooperate closely with other sports event organisers
7. Strengthen relationships with organisations managing sport for people with different abilities
8. Forge relationships with professional leagues
9. Set a framework for the Olympic programme
10. Move from a sport-based to an event-based programme
11. Foster gender equality
12. Reduce the cost and reinforce the flexibility of Olympic Games management
13. Maximise synergies with Olympic Movement stakeholders
14. Strengthen the 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism
15. Change the philosophy to protecting clean athletes
16. Leverage the IOC USD 20 million fund to protect clean athletes
17. Honour clean athletes
18. Strengthen support to athletes
19. Launch an Olympic Channel
20. Enter into strategic partnerships
21. Strengthen IOC advocacy capacity
22. Spread Olympic values-based education
23. Engage with communities
24. Evaluate the Sport for Hope programme
25. Review Youth Olympic Games positioning
26. Further blend sport and culture
27. Comply with basic principles of good governance
28. Support autonomy
29. Increase transparency
30. Strengthen the IOC Ethics Commission independence
31. Ensure compliance
32. Strengthen ethics
33. Further involve sponsors in “Olympism in Action” programmes
34. Develop a global licensing programme
35. Foster TOP sponsors’ engagement with NOCs
36. Extend access to the Olympic brand for non-commercial use
37. Address IOC membership age limit
38. Implement a targeted recruitment process
39. Foster dialogue with society and within the Olympic Movement
40. 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]
  • Dec 8, 2014 – Morning Session Highlights
  • Dec 8, 2014 – Afternoon Session Highlights
  • Dec 8, 2014 – Morning Session – Part 1
  • Dec 8, 2014 – Morning Session – Part 2
  • Dec 8, 2014 – Afternoon Session
  • Press Conference with IOC President Thomas Bach
• Video on demand

SCHEDULE [PDF]

LIVE STREAM

Opening Ceremony

• Speech of the IOC President Thomas Bach [pdf]
• Opening Ceremony [YouTube]
• Press release [IOC]

Olympic Agenda 2020

Read more about the Olympic Agenda 2020:

• Olympic Agenda 2020 unveiled

Olympic Agenda 2020: Strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement unveiled

IOC President says “Now is the time for change”

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today revealed the 40 proposals that make up Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, which will be discussed and voted on by the full IOC membership at the 127th IOC Session this 8 and 9 December in Monaco.

During the public launch of the recommendations at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, President Bach called the 20+20 proposals “the culmination of a year of open, transparent and widespread debate and discussion, which had already begun in mid-2013.”

“These 40 recommendations are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,” he added. “When you put them together, a picture emerges that shows the IOC safeguarding the uniqueness of the Olympic Games and strengthening sport in society.”

The IOC President first presented the recommendations to a round table of athletes, many of whom actively contributed to the Olympic Agenda 2020 process. The discussion included a number of medal-winning Olympians.

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20+20 Recommendations to shape the future of the Olympic Movement

1. Shape the bidding process as an invitation
2. Evaluate bid cities by assessing key opportunities and risks
3. Reduce the cost of bidding
4. Include sustainability in all aspects of the Olympic Games
5. Include sustainability within the Olympic Movement’s daily operations
6. Cooperate closely with other sports event organisers
7. Strengthen relationships with organisations managing sport for people with different abilities
8. Forge relationships with professional leagues
9. Set a framework for the Olympic programme
10. Move from a sport-based to an event-based programme
11. Foster gender equality
12. Reduce the cost and reinforce the flexibility of Olympic Games management
13. Maximise synergies with Olympic Movement stakeholders
14. Strengthen the 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism
15. Change the philosophy to protecting clean athletes
16. Leverage the IOC USD 20 million fund to protect clean athletes
17. Honour clean athletes
18. Strengthen support to athletes
19. Launch an Olympic Channel
20. Enter into strategic partnerships
21. Strengthen IOC advocacy capacity
22. Spread Olympic values-based education
23. Engage with communities
24. Evaluate the Sport for Hope programme
25. Review Youth Olympic Games positioning
26. Further blend sport and culture
27. Comply with basic principles of good governance
28. Support autonomy
29. Increase transparency
30. Strengthen the IOC Ethics Commission independence
31. Ensure compliance
32. Strengthen ethics
33. Further involve sponsors in “Olympism in Action” programmes
34. Develop a global licensing programme
35. Foster TOP sponsors’ engagement with NOCs
36. Extend access to the Olympic brand for non-commercial use
37. Address IOC membership age limit
38. Implement a targeted recruitment process
39. Foster dialogue with society and within the Olympic Movement
40. Review scope and composition of IOC commissions

Read more:

• Full press release
• Olympic Agenda 2020: 20+20 Recommendations [pdf]
• Olympic Agenda 2020: Context and Background [pdf]