The Top Olympic Programme (TOP), with 11 partners on board, is likely to see revenue for TOP VI (2005-2008) up 31 per cent from TOP V (2001-2004), which generated $603million.
TOP VII, covering the Games in 2010 and 2012, currently has five partners signed up, with ATOS Origin the latest. Ten partners in total are expected.
The IOC’s executive board, which is meeting in Singapore ahead of the 117th IOC Session, also reported that the organising committee for Torino 2006 (TOROC) had met its revenue target from marketing, while the organising committees for Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010 had already exceeded the revenue targets in their bid books for marketing.
IOC president Jacques Rogge was able to reflect on the healthy state of the organisation’s finances, that now boast reserves of $244million and would allow the IOC to survive for a further four years even if no Olympic Games took place.
It was also announced that the number of doping tests during the Games period at Torino 2006 will increase by 45 per cent.
