New Zealand's IOC Member Assesses Winter Hosts
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced New Zealand Olympic Committees, Secretary General, Barry Maister as part of an 11-member Evaluation Commission which is tasked with evaluating the three candidate cities bidding for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
The Evaluation Committee will make a technical appraisal of the three Candidate Cities bidding to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games: Munich (Germany), Annecy (France) and Pyeong Chang (South Korea). The purpose of this Commission is ensure that these bidding cities are capable of running the Winter Olympic Games by analyzing aspects such as transport, security and logistics. The 2018 Evaluation Commission will analyse the candidate cities bids before making on site inspections in February and March 2011. Representatives from the candidate cities will be giving presentations to all the IOC in May 2011 in Lusanne. All the IOC members then will make a vote as to what country will win the bid and become the organizing city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. This is always done seven years before Games.
Commenting on his appointment, Maister said: It is a great opportunity which will provide great insight into bid processes and how to run large events. This will have a positive spin off with the Winter Games held in Queenstown and Wanaka, New Zealand.
Barry Maister said he is very much looking forward to working with his colleagues in evaluating the bids from the three excellent candidate cities to see if they are capable of hosting a Winter Olympic Games.
The Winter Games were a New Zealand Olympic Committee initiative which was driven by previous President Sir Eion Edgar.
The Winter Games is the biggest winter sports event outside the Winter Olympics, Winter Games NZ features over 800 of the world's top athletes competing in 26 snow sports disciplines ranging from ski racing to curling, snowboarding to skating as well as a full adaptive skiing programme. Winter Games NZ provides elite winter sports athletes from around the world with the ultimate testing ground where they can experiment and explore performance limits against world class competition. Every four years, the Games act as a direct lead-up to the Winter Olympics giving athletes an invaluable training opportunity.
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