Lausanne: In a possible attempt to work out a solution related to the Doping crisis involving Russia, WADA, Russian hackers and the Premier Olympic body itself, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has convened an Olympic Summit on October 8, 2016 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The agenda of the summit includes measures to safeguard the interests of clean athletes and, review of the WADA anti-doping system. The Summit is expected to discuss about how to create a more robust, more efficient and more independent worldwide anti-doping system, which as off now has debatable contributions towards supporting the clean athletes and hence procedural gap from the Agenda 2020.
As per the Premier Olympic Body’s stand on this, the Summit will reinforce the request issued by the Olympic Summit in October last year to make the entire anti-doping system independent from sports organizations. The participants will also discuss a first debrief on the success of the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
The Olympic Summit is an important monitor of Olympic Movement and involves leading representatives from IOC, IFs, NOCs, SportAccord and WADA. The Summit forms part of the ongoing dialogue and consultation on the main topics of interest and concern to the Olympic Movement.
The Summit is chaired by the IOC President Thomas Bach; other invitees are IOC Vice-Presidents, IOC Executive Board Members representing IFs and Athletes, International Federations, President of FIFA, President of the FIG, President of FINA, President of the IAAF, President of the FIS, President of the IBSF, Recognised organisations, President of ANOC, President of the AIOWF, President of ASOIF National Olympic Committees, President of the Chinese Olympic Committee, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, President of the United States Olympic Committee, Invited participants related to the topic of the fight against doping, President of WADA, President of SportAccord, and President of IPC.