An International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegation led by the IOC’s Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli, met with representatives of Sochi 2014 to lay the ground work for the “close collaboration” that will exist between the two organization over the next seven years.
The agenda for the meeting allowed the IOC delegation to explain to Sochi 2014 representatives how the IOC works with an Olympic Games Organizing Committee and covered areas such as how the IOC follows and assists the progress of a Games project.
At the end of the day and a half of meetings in Moscow Felli said, “since we had our first meeting with the Sochi team on the morning after their election as the host city for 2014, they have done a great job of setting the wheels in motion to get the Sochi 2014 project underway. Thanks to this early progress we have had a day and a half of very productive meetings with Dmitry Chernyshenko and the Sochi team, as well as with the representatives of the government bodies involved in the Games project. This first encounter has laid the foundations for our work together on this exciting project over the next seven years as we look to ensure that the athletes will be able to compete in the best possible conditions at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi”.
During the meetings the IOC team looked at technical elements of the relationship between the IOC and Sochi 2014, including key aspects of the Games organization, common objectives for the IOC and the Organizing Committee, the structure of a Coordination Commission, the IOC’s Games-management process, logistics for the next visit of the IOC to Sochi, the development of the Master Schedule for the Sochi Games, and Sochi 2014’s current progress.
