IOC approves cycling venues for Tokyo Olympics

“They generalise”, Bach said.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland The International Olympic Committee wants to make sure the billions of dollars of cash distributed to stakeholders for the development of sport is being used appropriately and will ask for audits of every major contribution handed out, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Thursday. In June, police arrested the CEOs of two of Brazil’s largest construction companies, including the head of Odebrecht, which helped build many World Cup and Olympic venues.

After the approval by the IOC Session, the four elected athletes will become IOC members for an eight-year term of office.

But the financial fallout will not be as serious as some might expect, Chadwick said, with Asian nations – South Korea, Japan and China – hosting the next three editions after 2016 and offsetting any slumping interest from western cities.

The agreement covers the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang in 2018, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo in 2020, the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing in 2022, as well as all Olympic Games through to 2032.

· Sanctions should be pronounced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). WADA will lead intelligence-gathering funded by the IOC to make testing in the lead-up to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as efficient and independent as possible.

Last month, 13 of the 40-strong United States rowing team came down with a stomach illness at the world junior championships in Rio – a test event for next summer’s Olympics – with the team doctor expressing suspicions it was due to pollution in the lagoon where the competition took place. This organisation should also co-ordinate the work of the national anti-doping agencies to ensure a streamlined, efficient and worldwide harmonised anti-doping system. But the International Olympic Committee agreed to the switch as it saves another $100 million as part of a raft of cost cuts totalling nearly $2 billion.

On top of that, Brazil is mired in a spiraling kickback scandal centered on Petrobras, and Rousseff – whose popularity rating has sunk to about 10 percent – is facing impeachment proceedings based on allegations of fiscal irregularities by her government.

A working group drawn from both the International Olympic Committee and Rio Games organizers will identify savings and report back in about six weeks.

“I explained we are following the World Health Organization, following what they establish”, Nuzman said.

“We are now in a very operational phase where these kinds of political issues have much less influence than at other stages”, he said.