International Olympic Committee (IOC)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that six cities have bid to host the 2022 winter Games, which is twice as many that bid for the 2018 Olympics.

As tonight’s bidding application deadline for hosting the 2022 winter Olympics approaches, The Sport Consultancy’s Robert Datnow asks whether the candidate cities – and the communication consultancies that steer their bid strategies – will find the rules of the game beginning to change?

Oslo has revealed that it will spend $5.32 billion on hosting the 2022 winter Olympics, should its bid be successful.

The International Rugby Board (IRB)’s Rugby World Cup head Kit McConnell will join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as sports director, ahead of rugby’s return to the Olympic fold from 2016.

International sports organisations based in Switzerland generated $5.1 billion (CHF4.7 billion) for the country’s economy in 2011, according to a report released this month by research consultancy Rutter+Partner.

Hamburg Sports Federation (HSB) president Guenter Ploss has revealed that the city will not bid to host the 2024 Olympics, following Munich residents’ vote against a 2022 winter Games bid at the weekend.

Stockholm has confirmed that it will bid to host the 2022 winter Olympics, becoming the first Swedish city in history to do so.

Following a failure to gather support in a local referendum, Munich has decided against submitting a bid to host the 2022 winter Olympics.

Oslo has confirmed it will bid for the 2022 winter Olympics, seeking to bring the Games back to Oslo for the first time since 1952.

Ukraine’s national Olympic committee (NOC) president Sergey Bubka and Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyy have signed letters of declaration expressing the city’s intent to bid to host the 2022 winter Olympics.

The Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) has revealed that Beijing and northern Chinese city Zhangjiakou will launch a joint bid to host the 2022 winter Olympics.

Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) members have urged the Olympic body and Russian authorities to investigate the dumping of construction waste that has raised concerns of possible water supply contamination in the 2014 winter Games host city of Sochi.

Slovakia’s joint bid with Poland to host the 2022 winter Olympics has progressed with the Slovak government’s approval of a financial report.

The Lviv City Council has approved a proposed bid for the city to host the 2022 winter Olympics.

St. Petersburg governor Georgy Poltavchenko has revealed that the city is likely to bid to host the summer Olympics.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has appointed Jochen Farber as head of his executive office.