First IOC Coordination Commission Visit To London 2012

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission for the London 2012 Games is beginning its first full visit Wednesday.

It will be the first time that the full commission will be in London to receive an update from LOCOG on the progress of London 2012.

During its three-day visit the Commission will hear from representatives of London 2012 and other local stakeholders such as the Greater London Authority, the British Olympic Association, and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Commission members will also receive updates on the progress being made in different areas of LOCOG’s organization, such as sport, communications, transport and the environment.

The Commission is expected to tour the Olympic Park site during its visit.

The London 2012 Games are expected to be the first Games where the 117 recommendations, where applicable, from the report of the Olympic Games Study Commission, will be fully implemented.

LOCOG is also the first organizing committee to benefit 100 per cent from the full range of IOC Games Management Tools - such as Transfer of Knowledge and Olympics Games Knowledge Management resources, from the start of the bid phase right through to the end of the Games.

Meanwhile London 2012 is looking for a general counsel to take over from commercial and legal director Charlie Wijeratna who will become commercial director.

Wijeratna told The Lawyer, “we’ve taken the decision that we need someone very different as an organizing committee to what we needed as a bid team”.

The general counsel will be a key adviser for chief executive Paul Deighton and will have to understand the media and be comfortable in a political environment managing the company’s stakeholders – the Government, London’s Mayor, the British Olympic Authority and the Olympic Delivery Authority.

Also preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will reach their first important milestone next week when organizations will be pitching for the role of “delivery partner” to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), reports the Times.

According to the Times the job of the delivery partner is to supervise on behalf of the ODA all the “nuts and bolts” of the construction process on the Olympic site. Write or read comments about this article

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