Vancouver 2010 has established a transition team to help set up the organizing committee that will plan and stage the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The co-chairs of the team are Jack Poole, chairman of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation and Michael Chambers, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee.
In a press release Poole said, “having been selected as the host city for the 2010 Winter Games we are now moving into a new phase. The Vancouver 2010 Bid Book is the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) work plan for the next six-and-a-half years. The new organizing committee will take those plans and make them come alive”.
Chambers added, “the Canadian Olympic Committee has a proud history of participating in and hosting the Olympic Games. We’re now setting the stage of what we know will be an outstanding Games in 2010”.
The OCOG is expected to be formed in September 2003.
The committee will start with a 19-member board of directors with representatives from the City of Vancouver, Resort Municipality of Whistler, Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, local First Nations (Squamish and Lil’Wat), Canadian Paralympic Committee and Canadian Olympic Committee.
The board will elect a chair and appoint the senior executive officers.
During the first year the OCOG will have less than 25 people which will grow to more than 1,000 employees by 2009.
