IOC Session in India: Who will attend? Top agenda of the meeting

The 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be taking place from 15 to 17 October at the Jio World Convention Centre, in Mumbai. The prestigious IOC meeting is going to be held in India for the second time after 1983 in Delhi.

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The IOC Session is the main decision-making organ in the Olympic movement. The topic of discussion during the event will be over host cities for the upcoming events, inclusion or exclusion of sports and federations and changes in the Olympic Charter.

Who will attend?

Over 600 members from the world sports top echelons will be taking part in the Session. These include 99 voting members and 43 honorary members, representing a diverse range of sports.

Top agenda

The Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) recognition of entities from illegally annexed Ukrainian territories and the sports programme for Los Angeles 2028 are also agenda items for this meeting.

The Executive Board, founded in 1921, consists of the IOC President, four Vice-Presidents and ten other members. All the members of the Executive Board are elected by the session, by secret ballot, by a majority of votes cast, for a four-year term.

IOC Session: Everything you need to know about the meeting in Mumbai

The Executive Board will study the report from the Olympic Programme Commission covering Los Angeles 2028’s proposal to add cricket, baseball and softball, flag football, lacrosse and squash to the Games in five years’ time.

If approved, it would mark a symbolic return to the Olympics for cricket for the first time since Paris 1900. In the past, a total of 140 IOC Sessions have been conducted since 1894.

India secured the hosting rights for the IOC session when a delegation, headed by Nita Ambani presented the country’s case at the 139th IOC session in Beijing in February 2022.

Given Mumbai’s intrinsic connection to Indian sports and the country’s Olympic history, the port city promises to be the perfect stage for yet another ground-breaking IOC session. Earlier, IOC chief Thomas Bach met with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai. IOC member Nita Ambani was also present during the meeting.

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assured the IOC officials that the state will provide complete support to the Olympic Association.

On Monday, the IOC with the Olympic Museum aligned with Reliance Foundation to build on the success of the Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) in India and signed a new cooperation agreement.

This underscored the organisations’ shared priority to promote Olympic values through sport among young people.

With agency inputs