IOC’s newly-elected president Kirsty Coventry opens up on India’s want to host 2036 Olympics: ‘I’ve few concepts’

Costa Navarino: Newly-elected Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry was expectedly guarded on India’s bid to stage the 2036 Video games, saying she is going to reveal her “concepts” on the choice of future host in coming days.

The 41-year-old Coventry was elected president of the IOC on Thursday to grow to be the primary girl and first African to get the most important job in world sports activities.

Requested if there’s any probability of India’s bid to be transformed to “accelerated focused dialogue” earlier than incumbent president Thomas Bach leaves workplace on June 23, Coventry stated, “On the finish of the day there’s a course of in place and that course of is ongoing and that may stay, so far as I do know, for the following few months.”

“I do assume that we have to contain the members within the choice of future host and I’ve few concepts and could also be prepared to share these, could also be subsequent week,” she stated on the press convention after her election.

She is going to take cost as IOC president from Bach on June 23, the Olympic Day, after three months of transition interval.

The Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) has submitted the ’expression of curiosity’ to the IOC’s Future Host Fee to host the 2036 Video games, taking the primary concrete step in an bold plan after months of casual dialogue with the apex physique.

Greater than 10 international locations, together with the likes of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have expressed curiosity to host the 2036 Olympics, although it isn’t recognized but what number of or which different nations have formally achieved that.

With the submission of ‘Letter of Intent’, India has progressed from ‘Casual Dialogue’ to the ‘Steady Dialogue’ stage of the host election course of. On this stage, the IOC conducts a ‘feasibility examine’ of the progress of initiatives related to the Video games within the potential host.

The subsequent part of the method could be ‘Targetted Dialogue’, which might require the submission of an edition-specific formal bid, which might be assessed by the Future Host Fee. The method would lastly finish with a number election.

A choice on the 2036 host is unlikely to come back earlier than 2026.