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Russian Zhukov to head IOC coordination commission for 2022 Winter Games

Xinhua, February 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russia's Alexander Zhukov has been named head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s coordination commission for the 2022 Winter Games, the IOC said on Wednesday.

Zhukov, who previously headed the IOC's evaluation commission assessing the bids for the 2022 Games, will chair the 16-member coordination commission that will monitor preparations for the 2022 Games in Beijing.

IOC President Thomas Bach said Zhukov's commission would focus on "sustainability and environmental protection."

Other members of Zhukov's panel include International Ski Federation president Gian-Franco Kasper and Dmitry Chernyshenko, who headed the organizing committee for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Frank Fredericks of Namibia, who won four silver medals in the 100 and 200 meters at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, will chair the evaluation panel for the 2024 Summer Games. The four candidates, which submitted their first formal bid files to the IOC last week, are Los Angeles, Rome, Paris and Budapest, Hungary.

Among those serving on his 14-member panel will be Japanese Olympic Committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda, two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe and the heads of the international triathlon, archery and badminton federations.

The evaluation commission will visit the bid cities and prepare a report for IOC members, who will vote on the host city in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.

Bach also announced that Turkish IOC executive board member Ugur Erdener will chair a working group on the future of the Youth Olympic Games. Lillehammer, Norway, hosted the latest edition of the Winter Youth Games last week. Buenos Aires is scheduled to stage the next summer edition in 2018. Endi