IOC Executive Board meeting on 12 and 13 February 2013 in Lausanne - Information for the media - Updated
The Programme for
the media has been updated, and a press briefing with the IOC
Communications Director, Mark Adams, has been added on Tuesday 12 February at 12 p.m. (CET). For more information including the full programme and details on accreditation, please click here
Press briefing at 12 p.m. on 12 February: teleconference call and playback
Media
representatives who will not be in Lausanne will have the possibility
of listening to the press briefing at 12p.m. live on 12 February by teleconference.
The number and access code will be as follows:
Number to dial: +41 91 610 41 20. For a full list of phone numbers in your country, please click here
PIN code (access code): 2612179#
Media
representatives will also have the opportunity to access the audio
recording of the aforementioned press briefing on 12 February one hour
after it takes place, and for a period of 48 hours. Depending on where
they are calling from, participants requesting the digital playback
should dial:
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INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
PRESS RELEASE
Thursday 07 February 2013
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Athletes of the world officially invited to Sochi 2014 with one year to go
At
a ceremony today marking one year to go until the start of the Sochi
2014 Olympic Winter Games, International Olympic Committee President
Jacques Rogge officially invited the world’s National Olympic Committees
(NOCs) and their athletes to take part in the Games.
During the event,
President Rogge personally delivered invitations to representatives of
the NOCs from the host countries of the previous, next and future
editions of the Olympic Winter Games (Canada, Russia and South Korea,
respectively), in addition to the NOC of the host country of the next
Summer Olympic Games (Brazil). All other invitations will be sent by
post from the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The ceremony took
place at the Bolshoi Ice Palace in Sochi and was attended by the
President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, IOC Coordination
Commission Chairman Jean-Claude Killy, IOC members in Russia Vitaly
Smirnov, Shamil Tarpishev and Alexander Popov, and the President of the
Sochi 2014 Organising Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Accepting
the invitations from President Rogge were Canadian Olympic Committee
President Marcel Aubut, Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos
Nuzman, the Chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee’s International
Commission, Ji Young Kim, and Russian Olympic Committee President
Alexander Zhukov.
“A
year before the start of an Olympic Games is traditionally the time we
invite the athletes of the world to take part in the Games, which are a
celebration of sport, peace and humanity,” said President Rogge. “These
will be the first Olympic Winter Games to be held in Russia, and the
Russians are eager to welcome the world to the shores of the Black Sea
and the mountains of the Caucasus. A spectacular setting with equally
impressive venues await those who qualify – the perfect platform on
which to compete. I wish all the athletes hoping to compete here next
February all the best in their preparations.”
Sochi
2014 Organising Committee President and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said,
“Today is a milestone day for us. In just one year’s time we will invite
the whole world to Sochi and we are eager to help every guest enjoy the
best winter Games in history. I believe we are pretty much where we
should be at this point in time. All sports venues in the Mountain and
Coastal Clusters are almost ready, and the volunteer selection process
for the Sochi Games is approaching the finish line. But now is the time
for us to really concentrate and to do our best during this final stage
before the Games. We need to make sure that every single aspect of our
preparations is aligned as we get ready for this historic event. That is
why the Sochi 2014 Organising Committee has already moved into full
‘Olympic mode’ by starting large-scale operational testing of the sports
venues. We recognise that it will be vital to ensure that we have
perfected all the services that we will deliver for the Games.”
The
ceremony, which was covered by media from around the world, featured an
ice dancing performance directed by Salt Lake 2002 silver medallist
Ilya Averbukh and featured a number of Russia’s most well known figure
skating stars such as Irina Slutskaya, Tatiana Navka, Roman Kostomarov,
Alexej Yagudin, Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin. The show brought
together over 300 participants and told the story of the preparations
for the Sochi 2014 Games from the moment the city was elected in 2007 to
today. The celebration concluded with a spectacular firework display.
Sochi will host the XXII Olympic Winter Games from 7 to 23 February 2014.
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