The International Olympic Committee introduces the

Olympism in Action Forum 5-6 October ,

1. About the in Action Forum 2. The Youth (YOG) 3. What is Olympism/ the Olympic Movement? 4. What is United By? 5. Olympism in Action Forum Programme 6. Speakers List 7. Backgrounders on themes discussed at the Forum a. Refugees and Sport b. Integrity in Sport c. The Fight Against Doping d. The Future of the Games e. Safeguarding from Harassment and Abuse in Sport f. Gender Equality g. Sustainability h. Sport and Human Rights i. Athlete Support 8. Social Media Guide 9. On-site Media Contacts 10. Floorplan 11. Press Announcements a. Leandro Erlich Installation ‘Ball Game’ b. World’s First Global Active Cities c. Olympism Made Visible

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ABOUT THE OLYMPISM IN ACTION FORUM

The role of sport in our world is more relevant than ever before. By bringing together thousands of athletes and inspiring billions of viewers, the Olympic Games and the spirit of Olympism unite people around the world and promote peace in our society. To further the momentum of using sport for good, the International Olympic Committee is launching the first ever Olympism in Action Forum (OiAF).

The Olympism in Action Forum will take place on 5 and 6 October, just before the , an elite sporting event that convenes future generations of athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees to compete in a sports programme based on that of the Olympic Games. The juxtaposition of these two events will shine a spotlight on the fresh thinking and new trends in sport, promoting Olympism on a global stage.

Four years on from the reforms adopted in the Olympic Agenda 2020 which signalled the start of a new chapter in the future of the Olympic Movement, the OiAF, one of the very recommendations of Olympic Agenda 2020, will bring together stakeholders from across the Olympic Movement and society to open new dialogues, discuss global challenges, and share innovative experiences and inspiring stories to further mobilise sport to create a better world.

Conversations during the Forum will transpire through plenary debates, collaborative workshops, live interviews and constructive and interactive dialogues with a diverse group of speakers and guests.

The Forum is expected to draw 1,600 participants including athletes, International Federations, National Olympic Committees, business partners, UN agencies, NGOs, governments, private and public-sector leaders, academics, the media, and artists.

Advancing the role of sport in society is a team effort, strengthened by an open exchange of diverse and innovative perspectives. Let’s come together and use sport to effect positive change around the world.

IOC President : “The Olympism in Action Forum is one of the results of Olympic Agenda 2020 where we said we want to open our windows and doors. We want to listen to society and to understand how the world sees us, rather than us telling the world how they should see us. Following the Forum, we will assess all of the contributions, learn from them and implement a number of hopefully innovative ideas.”

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THE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES (YOG)

WHAT?

The Youth Olympic Games are an elite sporting event for young people from all over the world. The YOG is an event distinct from other events, as it also integrates a unique Culture and Education Programme (CEP), based around five main themes: Olympism, Social Responsibility, Skills Development, Expression and Well-being and Healthy Lifestyles.

The sports programme is based on that of the Olympic Games, with 28 sports featured on the summer programme and seven on the winter programme. In addition, the programme also includes exciting new disciplines and formats, such as 3-on-3 basketball, skills challenge and mixed gender and mixed National Olympic Committee (NOC) events.

Away from the field of play and through a variety of fun and interactive activities, workshops and team-building exercises, the CEP gives the participating athletes the opportunity to learn about the Olympic values, explore other cultures and develop the skills to grow as true ambassadors of their sport.

WHO?

The Youth Olympic Games aim to bring together talented young athletes aged from 15 to 18 from around the world. At YOG Buenos Aires 2018, all 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will participate.

The Summer Youth Olympic Games feature over 3,500 athletes and are held over a 12-day period, while the Winter Youth Olympic Games feature over 1,100 athletes and last 10 days.

Non-athlete participants, namely the Young Reporters, Young Change Makers, Ambassadors and Athlete Role Models, are also an integral part of the Youth Olympic Games experience.

WHEN? Just like the Olympic Games, the Youth Olympic Games are held every four years. The first summer edition was held in from 14 to 26 August 2010, and the first winter edition was held in , , from 13 to 22 January 2012.

The second Summer Youth Olympic Games were held in , , in August 2014 and the second Winter Youth Olympic Games took place in , , in February 2016. The third Summer Youth Olympic Games will be held in Buenos Aires in Argentina in 2018, immediately following the Olympism in Action Forum. All Forum participants are invited to the YOG Opening Ceremonies on 6 October 2018.

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WHAT IS OLYMPISM / THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT?

Olympism is more than the Games, more than the Olympians.

It is a philosophy of life that brings together sport with culture and education for the benefit of humanity.

The spirit of Olympism lives well beyond the Olympic Games. It is defined by a set of values that inspire and connect people around the globe to build a better world through sport, 365 days a year.

It is the coaches, volunteers, ground staff, early morning risers, parents that drive the team to practice, athletes, teachers, community workers and everything in-between. The people that make sport happen every day for themselves, their families, friends and communities.

It is the power of the Olympic values - Excellence, Friendship and Respect - in every part of life to deliver a better world now and for generations to come.

To learn about some of the individuals who are united by these values and putting Olympism into action everyday, visit Olympic.org/olympism-in-action/united-by-olympism

We are all United By Olympism.

WHAT IS UNITED BY?

Sport has the power to unite regardless of age, gender, religion, nationality, ability. It unites us through passion, teamwork, commitment, loss and victory. It unites by creating a shared well-being of body and mind. We are United By sport.

United By celebrates the power of Olympism to have a lasting positive impact on people’s well-being – physically, mentally and socially – every day. It shows the values of Olympism and the global community it creates, building lifelong friendships and fostering mutual respect amongst all.

We are United By qualities that transcend borders, qualities that make us human.

Terms that we believe we are all United By include:

Excellence Friendship Respect Progress Peace Purpose Diversity Inspiration Legacy Tolerance Movement Passion Equality Courage Goals Hope Determination Action Perseverance Love Fair-play Family Sportsmanship

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To access any photos taken during the event, please visit flickr.com/photos/IOCmedia

To access any footage taken during the event, please visit IOCnewsroom.com

Please note that this programme is not final, and a final one will be provided on the day.

As well, attendance at the high demand ‘working zone’ sessions will be on a first come first serve basis due to space limitations.

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Programme

*All titles, times, formats and speakers are subject to change

11 September 2018

Friday 5 October 2018

7:30 – 9:00 Registration & Breakfast

9:00 – 9:25 REMARKS: Opening Session

9:25 – 9:40 INTERVIEW: The Power of the Olympic Truce

9:40 – 10:20 PANEL: Women in Sport

10:20 – 11:00 PANEL: Combatting : A Battle Worth Fighting

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:50 Working Zone 1A: Protecting Athletes: Working Zone 1B: Protecting Athletes: 4 sessions in Considerations on Doping & Fair Play Education & Deterrence parallel Working Zone 2: Sports Betting & Match-Fixing

Working Zone 3: Prevention of Harassment & Abuse in Sport

Working Zone 4: Social Inclusion & Cohesive Societies

12:50 – 14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 – 15:20 Working Zone 5: Active Cities & Healthy Societies

4 sessions in Working Zone 6A: Economics, Legacy & Working Zone 6B: Spotlight on parallel the New Norm: Debate 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games

Working Zone 7: Sustainability Through Sport

Working Zone 8: Generating Social Change Through Sport

15:20 – 15:45 Networking Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:35 PANEL: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives

16:35 – 16:50 SPARK TALK: Fighting for the Right to Play Sport

16:50 – 17:35 PANEL: Integrity of Institutions: Combatting Corruption in Sport

17:45 – 18:45 Awards Ceremony

19:00 – 21:00 Cultural Evening

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Saturday 6 October 2018

9:00 – 10:30 Working Zone 9A: Sport as a Human Working Zone 9B: Sport & Human 4 sessions in Right Rights parallel Working Zone 10: Education & Skill-Building Through Sport

Working Zone 11: Fan of the Future Working Zone 12A: New Frontiers: Working Zone 12B: New Frontiers: Esports Urbanisation of Sports

10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:20 INTERVIEW: YOG 2018: Spotlight on Buenos Aires

11:20 – 11:35 SPARK TALK: Using the Power of Basketball to Educate & Empower Youth

11:35 – 12:15 PANEL: What is the Future of Sport?

12:15 – 12:30 SPARK TALK: Judo for the World

12:30 – 12:55 PANEL: Journey from Refugee to Olympian: Spotlight on Rio 2016 Refugee Olympic Team

12:55 – 13:10 SPARK TALK: Education and Empowerment Through

13:10 – 13:30 INTERVIEW: Olympian to Socially Conscious Entrepreneur: A New Career Path?

13:30 – 13:45 REMARKS: Forum Outcomes

14:00 – 15:00 Networking Lunch

20:00 Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

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Friday 5 october 2018

7:30 – 9:00 Registration & Breakfast Registration: Registration Area (Level 0) Breakfast: Foyer & Marketplace

9:00 – 9:25 Opening Session Plenary Hall

This discussion will address topics including the values of Olympism, the role of these values at the national and global levels, why sport is still a valuable tool for national development after hundreds of years, and how we can ensure sport is being used as a tool for good in the world.

• Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic Champion, Fencing, 1976 • , President of Argentina

In conversation with: Jennifer Dahlgren, Olympian ( 2004, 2008, 2012, Río 2016), Argentina

9:25 – 9:40 The Power of the Olympic Truce Plenary Hall

Dating back to 776 BC and the , the Olympic Truce was announced before the Olympic Games. A call to a cessation of any hostilities, it was intended to ensure that the host city of the Olympic Games was able to organise the event in peace and ensure the safe passage of athletes and spectators taking part in the Games. The Olympic Truce was revived by the United Nations Organisation in 1993. Even under the most tense and volatile of circumstances, the Olympic Truce reaffirms that the Olympic values of peace, solidarity and respect are as important across the world today as they were over 3,000 years ago, when the ancient Olympic Games first took place in Greece. Taking the most recent inspiring example of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, this session will highlight how sport and the values of Olympism have the power to unite a fractured world.

Ban Ki-moon, Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations & Chair, International Olympic Committee Ethics Commission

In conversation with: Sonali Prasad, Print and Data Journalist, Olympic Information Services Photo Project, India

9:40 – 10:20 Women in Sport Plenary Hall

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While the world has taken great steps in the last 100 years to advance gender equality, it is critical to continue and expand upon this forward momentum to build a world characterised by universal equal rights for women and men. Promoting gender equality in all industries, from business and politics to entertainment and sport, is hugely relevant in today’s world; however, much remains to be done to ensure that women and girls are given equal opportunity to succeed, provided fair and equal pay, and protected from discrimination, harassment, and abuse. This session will discuss the challenges women in sport face, and it will explore how sport can be used as a tool for empowering women and girls and for moving the needle towards gender parity.

Moderator: Evelyn Watta, Vice President, International Sports Press Association & News Producer, Olympic Channel, Kenya

• Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, Vice President of Development and Planning & President of Mass Participation, General Sports Authority, Saudi Arabia • Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak, Global Vice Chair - Public Policy, EY & Founder, EY Women Athletes Business Network (WABN), • Marisol Casado, IOC Member, President of the International Triathlon Union & IOC Gender Equality Review Working Group Chair, Spain • Brian Lewis, President, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) & Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC), Trinidad & Tobago • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, UN Women

10:20 – 11:00 Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting Plenary Hall

The responsibility that the Olympic Movement and sport organizations worldwide have in ensuring sport and sporting events are fair and clean is more relevant than ever before. How can we ensure that the testing being done is independent and without any conflicts of interest? How can we break the “rule of silence” and encourage people to come forward and report violations? What is the right balance between protecting the civil rights and privacy of athletes versus anti-doping measures? This panel discussion with a diverse group of athletes and officials will address the most critical issues related to doping, which affect not only the Olympic Movement, but global sports at large.

Moderator: Adnan Nawaz, News Anchor, TRT World, Turkey

• Benjamin Cohen, Director General, International Testing Agency, • Kirsty Coventry, Five-time Olympian & Chair, IOC Athletes' Commission, Zimbabwe • David Millar, Former Pro Cyclist & Founder, CHPT3, United Kingdom

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• , Anti-Doping Whistleblower & Elite Athlete & Vitaly Stepanov, Anti-Doping Whistleblower & Former Employee, Russian Anti-Doping Agency (livestreamed) • Günter Younger, Director, Intelligence and Investigations, World Anti- Doping Agency, Canada

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break Foyer & Marketplace

11:30 – 12:50 Working Zone 1A: Working Zone 1B: 4 sessions in parallel Protecting Athletes: Protecting Athletes: Considerations on Education & Deterrence Doping & Fair Play Working Zone Excellence Working Zone Excellence In a world where science and What constitutes doping and fair technology innovate at play may not always be as black and unprecedented levels, notably in the white as it seems. Doping raises methods of detecting prohibited many questions, which can drugs, it appears that it would be oftentimes differ depending on the difficult for any athlete to conceal context. For example, all athletes do doping. However, experts believe it things to optimize their physical is becoming more challenging to performance: they might wear fight doping. From stricter sanctions special clothing, they might undergo to education, there are many surgery to recover from an injury, directions to explore regarding more they might use treatments to efficient deterrence and prevention acclimatize to higher altitudes, and methods. Focusing resources on the they might use drugs to increase deterrence and prevention of doping, muscle mass, among other things. as opposed to solely focusing on All of the aforementioned actions, post-factum efforts, could prove except for using drugs to increase more effective and efficient. muscle mass, are usually seen as Featuring a variety of athlete acceptable. This session will feature perspectives, this session will a lively debate between two leading explore which deterrence methods academics to stimulate new thinking have worked, where efforts need to around a commonly discussed be further expanded. issue. Facilitator: Adnan Nawaz, News Facilitator: Adnan Nawaz, News Anchor, TRT World, Turkey Anchor, TRT World, Turkey • Muffy Davis, 7-time Paralympic • Michael McNamee, Professor of Medallist & Governing Board Applied Ethics, College of Member, International Engineering, Swansea University, Paralympic Committee, United United Kingdom States • Andy Miah, Chair in Science • Kady Kanouté Tounkara, Zone Communication & Future Media, 2 Chair, Association of National

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School of Environment & Life Olympic Committees of Africa, Sciences, University of , Mali United Kingdom • Nicky Van Rossem, Project Officer, Belgian Olympic & Interfederal Committee, Belgium

Working Zone 2: Sports Betting & Match-Fixing Working Zone Friendship

Betting-related match-fixing has manifested itself as a recurrent, complex problem worldwide, transcending national boundaries, sporting disciplines, and levels of competition and involving a wide range of actors including referees, officials, coaches and athletes. The evolution of new technologies, the “hyper-globalisation” of the betting market, and ineffective regulation have been the main drivers of this surge. The negative impact of betting- related match-fixing on the integrity of sports, as well as betting’s links to gambling addiction and organised crime, have fuelled arguments against the legalisation of sports betting, an ongoing issue. This session will examine the sport-betting frameworks that exist and the work of regulatory and law enforcement entities to prevent match-fixing and organised crime linked to sports.

Facilitator: David Harrison, Senior Investigative Reporter, Al Jazeera International, United Kingdom

• Claudio Marinelli, Project Manager, INTERPOL, Integrity in Sport Team • Gabriela Matus Bonilla, Industrial Designer & IOC Young Change Maker, Guatemala • Sylvia Schenk, Chair of Working Group Sport, Transparency International, • Karl Stoss, IOC Member & Advisory Board Member, OM Unit PMC, Austria • Richard Watson, Executive Director, The Gambling Commission, United Kingdom

Working Zone 3: Prevention of Harassment & Abuse in Sport Working Zone Respect

Research and testimony demonstrate that harassment and abuse occur in sport, compounded by a lack of athlete safeguarding policies and procedures. The IOC Consensus Statement (2016) identifies five main forms of harassment and abuse: psychological abuse, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, neglect and physical abuse. Harassment and abuse may impair athletes’ performance, be associated with doping, increase athletes' willingness to cheat, lead to athlete drop-out, undermine the trust that athletes place in sport administrators, and/or result in a variety of presentations in survivors including psychosomatic illnesses, disordered

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eating, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, self-harm and even suicide. To prevent harassment and abuse, to effect organisational, institutional and secular-cultural change, and to perpetuate a culture which respects the rights of all, it is essential that we learn from each other and share best practices.

Facilitator: HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, IOC Member; IOC Women in Sport Commission Vice-Chair, IOC Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport Working Group Chair, Jordan

• Maria Bobenrieth, Executive Director, Women Win, The • Colin Harris, Former Professional Footballer & Academic, University of Brighton, United Kingdom • Diane Huffman, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee & Confederation of Sports, Norway • Karen Leach, Child Protection Advocate, Ireland • Morinari Watanabe, International Gymnastics Federation President, Japan

Working Zone 4: Social Inclusion & Cohesive Societies Working Zone Solidarity

Today, the world is impacted by divisions, and migrants, refugees, people of differing cultures and faiths, and other marginalised populations are too often left out. Dialogue and respect for different perspectives are essential in the age of globalisation, and sport provides a useful tool for promoting social inclusion. Furthermore, sport’s ability to contribute to sustainable development can be leveraged to work towards decreasing poverty, therefore promoting social inclusion on an economic level as well. This working zone aims to explore how sport can bridge the divisions that currently exist in societies around the world, with the goal of promoting inclusion and creating cohesive communities.

Facilitator: David Eades, Chief Presenter, BBC & Conference Host and Moderator United Kingdom

• Sharnelle Cader, Change Agent, World YMCA, South Africa • Luke Dowdney, Founder & CEO, Fight for Peace, • Neşe Gündoğan, Secretary-General, Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC), Turkey • Raouf Mazou, Country Representative, Kenya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) • Rabbi Carlos A. Tapiero, Deputy Executive Director, Maccabi World Union, Israel

12:50 – 14:00 Networking Lunch Foyer & Marketplace

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14:00 – 15:20 Working Zone 5: Active Cities & Healthy Societies 4 sessions in Working Zone Excellence parallel By 2050, more than two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities. While urban living brings benefits and opportunities for people, it poses a specific set of risks and challenges that can negatively affect public health. Cities must re-think the way they approach urban planning and growth in order to enable their citizens to be more active and healthy. This interactive session will explore concrete ways in which the sport and health sectors can collaborate to combat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) more generally. It will also take an in-depth look at solutions designed for urban populations. City officials, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and sport organisations will share their experiences in implementing policies and programmes in complex ecosystems.

Facilitator: Bill Morris LVO, International Events Consultant & Ex-Director of Culture, Ceremonies, Education and Live Sites, London 2012, United Kingdom

• Eleonora Bauer, Director of the Buenos Aires Ciudad Activa Project, Buenos Aires City Government, Argentina • Fiona Bull, Programme Manager, Surveillance & Population Based Prevention, Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases (PND), World Health Organisation • Espen Granberg Johnsen, Mayor of City Council, Lillehammer Municipality, Norway • Maurice Smith, Clinical Director, Living Well, NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, United Kingdom

Working Zone 6A: Working Zone 6B: Economics, Legacy & the Spotlight on Paris 2024

New Norm: Debate and Los Angeles 2028 Working Zone Friendship Olympic Games Working Zone Friendship Hosting major sporting events is frequently used by city and national Hosting major sporting events is governments as a catalyst for frequently used by local positive change, whether it be governments as a catalyst for increasing tourism, expanding positive change, whether it be transportation infrastructure, or increasing tourism, expanding raising a city’s global stature. transportation infrastructure, or However, what is initially planned by raising a city’s global stature. organizers as positive legacy Organizers of upcoming Olympic initiatives takes time to be realised Games will share their candid and is sometimes in stark contrast to thoughts and experiences in their the post-event expectations. The work to ensure the Olympic Games organisers of the Olympic Games

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have faced challenges such as are a force for good in the host oversized venues or venues that are cities. underutilised for some years before finding a viable future. Considering Facilitator: Sonali Shah, these challenges of the past, the Broadcaster & Journalist, United International Olympic Committee has Kingdom developed a set of 118 new reforms, which comprise “The New Norm.” • , IOC Member & These reforms aim to completely President, Paris 2024, France transform how the Olympic Games • Casey Wasserman, Chairman, are delivered (from candidature Los Angeles 2028, United States phase to Games organization) and how they can create an impactful, positive legacy. In this working zone, leading economists and experts will discuss challenges of bidding for and hosting the games and debate what needs to be done to ensure the Games are organised in a more economically beneficial and flexible way.

Facilitator: Sonali Shah, Broadcaster & Journalist, United Kingdom

• Fraser Bullock, COO & CFO, Salt Lake City 2002, United States • Holger Preuss, Professor, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany • Andrew Zimbalist, Chairperson and Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, United States

Working Zone 7: Sustainability Through Sport Working Zone Respect

From skiing and surfing to mountaineering and sailing, the number of sports that exist in natural environments is endless. This is why the protection of those environments is a vital priority for athletes, sport federations, the private sector, NGOs, and major sporting events. Driven by the power of sport to convene, move and inspire, the Olympic Movement and the sports world at large are continually working to not only ensure sustainable practices are embedded in the operations of organisations and the planning of events, but to also promote the protection of these environments in which

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many sports are practiced. This workshop will feature concrete examples of individuals and organisations who have effectively leveraged sport as a tool for environmental protection and sustainability.

Facilitator: David Eades, Chief Presenter, BBC & Conference Host and Moderator United Kingdom

• Giulia Carbone, Deputy Director, Business & Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland • Alex Deibold, Professional Snowboarder & 2014 Olympic Bronze Medallist, United States • Leo Heileman, Regional Director and Representative of the Office for and the Caribbean, UN Environment • David Katoatau, Weightlifting Olympian, Kiribati • Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, Global Technology & Sustainability Director, Olympic & Sports Solutions, The Dow Chemical Company, Switzerland • Jean-Christophe Rolland, President, World Rowing Federation, Switzerland

Working Zone 8: Generating Social Change Through Sport Working Zone Solidarity

The power of sport to transform communities, alter mind-sets and break down barriers has long been known, but framing this power into a sustainable solution has been a relatively recent phenomenon that has given rise to a new brand of young social entrepreneurs who feel a growing sense of responsibility as a global citizen to effect change. The overarching goal of this session is to provide frameworks, tools and implementable solutions to addressing systemic social challenges through the power of sport, community and innovation. The session will be a highly interactive, immersive experience. Participants will be tasked with designing either a product or service that addresses a social problem or need within a specific target audience set and location. At the end of the session, participants will walk away with not only a concrete implementable venture or concept, but a series of tools for designing solutions to a variety of problems.

Facilitator: Arnaud Mourot, Co-Director, Ashoka Europe, France

• Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 & Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh • Valéry de Falbaire, Podiatrist & Young Sport Ambassador, Mauritius • Samantha Miyanda, Young Change Maker, Zambia • Juan Sánchez, IOC YCM+ & Strategic Lead, Dilema.org, • Raúl Lucero, Ashoka Fellow, Argentina • Mariana Rufolo, Ashoka Fellow, Argentina

15:20 – 15:45 Networking Coffee Break

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Foyer & Marketplace

15:45 – 16:35 Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives Plenary Hall

There are many reasons why hosting the Olympic Games is attractive to a city or country. The expectations that the event will have a positive impact, both tangible and intangible, on local communities is alive and well. From developing an underserved part of a city and expanding much-needed infrastructure to boosting the local economy and increasing tourism, hosting such a large-scale event can bring about great opportunities. However, cost overruns, questions over resource use and perceived corruption among other challenges have left some populations hesitant about their city’s bid to host the Olympic Games. This session will seek to examine the arguments for and against hosting the Olympic Games, and shine a light on the real experiences, both challenging and inspiring, faced by organisers from past and upcoming Games.

Moderator: Sonali Shah, Broadcaster & Journalist, United Kingdom

• Mariana Behr, Former Head of Engagement and Education, Rio 2016, Brazil • Lord Paul Deighton, Former CEO, London 2012, United Kingdom • Chris Dempsey, Co-Founder, No Olympics, United States • John Furlong, OC,OBC, President and CEO, Vancouver 2010, Canada • Shu’an Yang, Vice President, Beijing 2022, China

16:35 – 16:50 Spark Talk: Fighting for the Right to Play Sport Plenary Hall One athlete’s story of bravery and perseverance, which remains an inspiration to others who wish to break down barriers and fight for a more equitable world through sport.

• Maria Toorpakai Wazir, Professional Player & Founder, Maria Toorpakai Foundation,

16:50 – 17:35 Integrity of Institutions: Combatting Corruption in Sport Plenary Hall

Through building awareness of corruption, encouraging a global dialogue on the topic, and promoting transparency in all sectors, we can advance the anti-corruption agenda and move towards stronger institutions at a time when general mistrust surrounds large organisations and multinational companies. This session will explore the success stories and best practices for protecting institutional integrity in sport, while also addressing the work and reforms that still need to be done.

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Moderator: Razia Iqbal, Presenter, BBC News, United Kingdom

• Mogens Jensen, Rapporteur on Sports Governance of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Member of the Parliament of Denmark, The Socialdemocratic Party, Denmark • Mari Kiviniemi, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD • Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC • Alexandra Orlando, Marketing Director, Canadian Olympian (Rhythmic Gymnastics), Pan American Sports Organization, Canada • Francesco Ricci Bitti, President, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), Italy

17:45 – 18:45 Awards Ceremony Plenary Hall

19:00 – 21:00 Cultural Evening Foyer/Marketplace

When the Awards Ceremony comes to a close, participants will exit the plenary hall for an exciting evening of refreshments, entertainment, and sport’s demos, which will take place within the main Foyer and Marketplace. Participants will find art installations from local and global artists, musical performances, fun sport demos, casual local food & drinks stations, and so much more. Participants will have time to network, build relationships, and discuss how to build a better world through sport.

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Saturday 6 October 2018

9:00 – 10:30 Working Zone 9A: Working Zone 9B: Sport &

4 sessions in Sport as a Human Human Rights Working Zone Excellence parallel Right

Working Zone Excellence Mega-sporting events such as the

This year, the world celebrates Olympic Games have great potential to inspire and positively impact the 70th Anniversary of the people’s lives. However, past Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a monumental experience has shown that improper management of such events can document which established the laws and principles related have serious, negative impacts on people and in communities, to the equality of all individuals and their inalienable right to generating human rights risks. For example, construction of new sport dignity. Sport is one of the best ambassadors to promote infrastructure can lead to harassment based on race, religion human rights and inclusion of all. Through sport, people learn or gender, unsafe working conditions for labourers or even values that cross gender, creed, nationality, age, economic forced eviction of the local communities. How can organisers position or even physical condition. This session will deliver dynamic events without infringing on the rights of highlight the special relationship between sport and human marginalised groups? This workshop will bring different rights and explore how sport and its values can be used to stakeholders together to discuss the responsibilities and priorities of promote human rights for all. sport in safeguarding human rights.

Facilitator: Razia Iqbal, Presenter, BBC News, United Facilitator: Razia Iqbal, Presenter, BBC News, United Kingdom Kingdom

• Marie Barsacq, Director of • Maria Bray, Child Protection & Psychosocial Impact and Legacy, Paris 2024, France Support Senior Advisor, Terre des hommes, • Ingmar De Vos, IOC Member & President, Fédération Equestre Switzerland • David Grevemberg CBE, Internationale (FEI), Switzerland • Giovanni Di Cola, Special Chief Executive, Adviser to the Deputy Director General for Field Operations and Federation, United Kingdom • Juan Pablo Salazar, Partnerships, International Labour Office, ILO Governing Board Member, International Paralympic • Mamadou D. Ndiaye, IOC Member, Committee, Colombia

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• Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, Human Rights Watch, United States

Working Zone 10: Education & Skill-Building Through Sport Working Zone Friendship

Sports provide not only health benefits to those who practice it, but they also provide opportunities to learn and develop many life skills that are useful for young people’s futures. Organisations and individuals around the world are working at the intersection of education and sport to benefit young people and global communities. This workshop will not only explore the power of sport as a tool for enhancing educational outcomes and imparting life skills but will also provide examples of organisations and individuals using this intersection to make a difference.

Facilitator: Mariana Behr, Former Head of Engagement and Education, Rio 2016, Brazil

• Vita Balsyte, Director of Olympic Education, National Olympic Committee of , Lithuania • David Blough, Executive Director, PLAY International, France • Miki Matheson, Education Committee Member, International Paralympic Committee & Project Manager, Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center, Japan • Alexander Schischlik, Chief, Youth and Sport Section, UNESCO

Working Zone 11: Fan of the Future Working Zone Respect

Sports are timeless, yet with each generation, innovation and changing social dynamics have altered and enhanced how fans experience them. Today, sports fans no longer just watch and cheer – they analyse, critique and connect with their teams in real time. With widespread technological advances, including those in the areas of connectivity, portability, livestreaming, mobile and social video, sports fans are consuming media in different, evolving ways. Fanbases are becoming diverse, more active, more influential, and are demanding better and unique stadium experiences. Are teams, leagues, sponsors and right holders ready to adapt to these wide-ranging changes?

Facilitator: Donna de Varona, Olympic Champion, Emmy Award Winning Broadcaster & Member of the IOC Women in Sport Commission, United States

• David Aufhauser, Managing Director, Intel Sports, United States

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• Jean-Briac (JB) Perrette, President & Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Networks International, United Kingdom • Andres Polo, Vice President, Global Innovation Marketing, Visa Inc., United States • Dan Reed, Head of Global Sports Partnerships, , United States • Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics and Operations and Strategy, NBC Sports Group, United States

Working Zone 12A: New Working Zone 12B: New Frontiers: Esports Frontiers: Urbanisation Working Zone Solidarity of Sports Working Zone Solidarity Esports continues to grow rapidly in popularity with reports As the global population becomes indicating over 400 million more urban, competition for people watching by 2019. With available physical space and the rise of this new generation of facilities has increased. This, athletes, this Working Zone will coupled with new trends in sport explore the daily life of participation, and innovations at professional esports players to the intersections of technologies, highlight what similarities and fashion, music, art and popular differences they have with culture, has led to the rise of new Olympians. Representatives from sports and the evolution of existing both worlds will discuss their ones: using less space, fewer training, the importance of resources and equipment to physical and mental fitness, how practice, and thus broadening they prepare for competition as opportunities for who can access well as the challenges and sport and physical activity. This opportunities in the life of an elite workshop will explore new sporting competitor. trends and innovations, as well as how some mainstream sports, Facilitator: TL Taylor, Professor, have adapted to the urban spaces, Massachusetts Institute of and how new sports can be used Technology (MIT), United States to attract younger people into the Olympic Movement. • Joshua Begehr, Chief Sport Officer, eSportsReputation Facilitator: Holly Thorpe, Associate GmbH, Germany Professor of Sociology of Sport • Jacob “Jake” Lyon, and Physical Culture, University of Professional Overwatch Waikato, Player, United States • Noah Whinston, CEO, • Charlotte Durif, Sport Immortals, United States Climbing Champion, France • Nyjah Huston, Professional • Michael Linklater, 6-year 3x3 Skateboarder, United States World Tour Pro & 3x3 Canadian National Team Captain, Canada

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• Sarah Walker, IOC Member • Logan Martin, BMX Freestyle & Cycling BMX Olympian, World Champion, Australia New Zealand • Hiroko Morohashi, Chairman • YOG athlete (TBD) of the Advisory Board, Xebio Holdings, Japan

10:30 – 11:00 Networking Coffee Break Foyer & Marketplace

11:00 – 11:20 YOG 2018: Spotlight on Buenos Aires Plenary Hall

In 2013, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Buenos Aires – a model cultural city – to be the host of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games: an elite international multi-sport event for the world's best young athletes. Buenos Aires 2018 promises to be unique in many ways. It will mark the first time that a Summer Youth Olympic event is held in , as well as the first time that an Olympic event has had an equal number of male and female athletes. How can the Youth Olympic Games be a catalyst for local leaders to engage and benefit youth? How will the event be leveraged to promote culture, education, urban development and more? In this session, Mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, will reflect on what the Youth Olympic Games mean to the city of Buenos Aires, its citizens, and especially its youth.

• Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mayor, Buenos Aires City Government, Argentina

In conversation with: Fernanda Russo, Shooter, Silver Medallist in Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games & Young Change-Maker, Argentine Delegation, Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, Argentina

11:20 – 11:35 Spark Talk: Using the Power of Basketball to Educate & Empower Youth Plenary Hall Grassroots organisations around the world are using sport to make a difference in their respective communities and beyond. Shooting Touch, an international sport-for-development organisation based in the United States and Rwanda, is using the power of basketball to deliver global health education, intervention, and empowerment to at- risk youth, women, and their families.

• Lindsey Kittredge, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Shooting Touch, United States • Sandrine "Dudu" Uwiduhaye, Head Coach, Shooting Touch, Rwanda

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11:35 – 12:15 What is the Future of Sport? Plenary Hall

Advances in technology, coupled with changes in demographics and cultural trends, will significantly transform the world of sport over the next decades. From the increased access to sports which were previously cost-prohibitive for many to the rise of thrill-seeking, self- expressive “extreme” or “alternative” sports such as kite surfing and , the future will impact all facets of sport – athletes, fans, leagues, federations – and will even give rise to new sports. The future will also redefine and challenge the traditional concept of a “sport” and what it means to be an “athlete”. For instance, can esports be considered a sport? Is the world of traditional sport adequately prepared to adapt to these changes? Moderator: Adnan Nawaz, News Anchor, TRT World, Turkey

• John Bonini, Vice President of Client Computing Group & General Manager of Esports and Gaming, Intel, United States • Leticia Bufoni, Professional Skateboarder, Brazil • Diamil Faye, President, Jappo Sports & Entertainment, Senegal • Susanne Schödel, Secretary-General, FAI World Air Sports Federation, Switzerland

12:15 – 12:30 Spark Talk: Judo for the World Plenary Hall The International Judo Federation (IJF) is a dynamic sport federation dedicated to building a better society through sport. An initiative of IJF called Judo for the World, which is comprised of Judo for Peace, Judo for Children, and Judo for Schools, supports populations in conflict areas, post-conflict areas, and regions with social issues through educational and outreach programming. This session will feature the great work that Judo for the World is doing across the globe, from Iran and Turkey to China and Argentina.

Introduction by: Marius Vizer, President, International Judo Federation, Austria

• Ruben Houkes, Olympic Bronze Medallist & Judo for Children Commission Member, International Judo Federation, Netherlands • Nicolas Messner, Director, IJF Media & Judo for Peace, France

12:30 – 12:55 Journey from Refugee to Olympian: Spotlight on Rio 2016 Refugee Olympic Team Plenary Hall

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With an unprecedented 68.5 million people living as refugees across the globe and even more populations in conflict, the world is facing a challenge that must be addressed. Sport can contribute to addressing this issue that has been difficult for institutions and governments to solve. For children and youth uprooted by war or persecution, sport provides an opportunity to be included and protected – a chance to heal, develop and grow. Sport can also be a positive catalyst for empowering refugee communities, strengthening social cohesion and forging closer ties with host communities. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) created the first team of Refugee Olympic Athletes that participated in the Games as a symbol of hope for refugees worldwide. During this session, two of those ten athletes will share their personal journeys and the opportunities that sport has provided them.

Moderator: Jim Bell, President, NBC Olympics Production & Programming, NBC Sports Group, United States

• Yiech Pur Biel, Track & Field Olympian, Refugee Olympic Team & Board Member, Olympic Refuge Foundation, South Sudan • Yusra Mardini, Swimmer, Refugee Olympic Team & Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR, Syria

12:55 – 13:10 Spark Talk: Education and Empowerment Through Skateboarding Plenary Hall Grassroots organisations around the world are using sport to make a difference in their respective communities and beyond. Skateistan, an award-winning, international development initiative based in , Cambodia, and South Africa, is empowering children and youth through skateboarding and education.

• Oliver Percovich, Founder & Executive-Director, Skateistan, Germany • Kouv Chan “Tin” Sangva, Program Officer, Skateistan, Cambodia

13:10 – 13:30 Olympian to Socially Conscious Entrepreneur: A New Career Path? Plenary Hall

Elite athletes have an outstanding potential to become successful innovators and entrepreneurs. In their sporting careers, they acquire invaluable skills of leadership, persistence, teamwork and a relentless pursuit of excellence that can be leveraged as they transition from active competition. This session will explore the available post-career entrepreneurial opportunities and how the Olympic Movement can

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empower and support Olympians to become entrepreneurs once they have retired from elite competition. Professor Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Laureate 2006) and an accomplished Olympian will provide insights into what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how Olympians can use the idea of social business to solve society’s greatest problems.

• Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 & Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

In conversation with: Angela Ruggiero, CEO and Co-Founder, Sports Innovation Lab & 4-time Olympian in Ice Hockey, United States

13:30 – 13:45 Forum Outcomes & Closing Remarks Plenary Hall

Special announcements and final remarks by President Thomas Bach will bring the Forum to a close.

14:00 – 15:00 Networking Lunch Foyer & Marketplace An informal, buffet-style lunch will allow participants to connect with one another, build relationships, explore the marketplace, and more.

20:00 Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Obelisco Monument, Av. 9 de Julio between Sarmiento and Av de Mayo - City of Buenos Aires All participants are invited to celebrate the ground-breaking, first-ever street-party style Opening Ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games on Saturday, 6 October at 20:00. With free access to the public, hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected to line the main avenue in the Argentinian capital, Avenida 9 de Julio. You will be part of an amazing show with great talents and technology in action, with the City of Buenos Aires as the scenery – we look forward to seeing you there!

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SPEAKERS LIST

The list of speakers attending the Olympism in Action Forum are listed below, as well as the topic they will be discussing.

• Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic Champion, Fencing, 1976 • David Aufhauser, Managing Director, Intel Sports

o Topic: Future of the Games • Vita Balsyte, Director of Olympic Education, National Olympic Committee of Lithuania

o Topic: Education & Skill-Building Through Sport • Ban Ki-moon, Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations & Chair, International Olympic Committee Ethics Commission

o Topic: The Power of the Olympic Truce • Marie Barsacq, Director of Impact and Legacy, Paris 2024

o Topic: Sport & Human Rights • Eleanora Bauer, Director of the Buenos Aires Ciudad Activa Project, Buenos Aires City Government

o Topic: Active Cities & Healthy Societies • Joshua Begehr, Chief Sport Officer, eSports Reputation GmbH

o Topic: New Frontiers: Esports • Mariana Behr, Former Head of Engagement and Education, Rio 2016

o Topic: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives o Topic: Education & Skill-Building Through Sport • Jim Bell, President, NBC Olympics Production and Programming, NBC Sports Group

o Topic: Journey from Refugee to Olympian: Spotlight on Rio 2016 Refugee Olympic Team • Yiech Pur Biel, Track & Field Olympian, Refugee Olympic Team & Board Member, Olympic Refuge Foundation

o Topic: Journey from Refugee to Olympian: Spotlight on Rio 2016 Refugee Olympic Team • David Blough, Executive Director, PLAY International

o Topic: Education & Skill Building Through Sport • Maria Bobenrieth, Executive Director, Women Win

o Topic: Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport • Maria Bray, Child Protection & Psychosocial Support Senior Advisor, Terre des hommes

o Topic: Sport as a Human Right • Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak, Global Vice Chair - Public Policy, EY & Founder, EY Women

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Athletes Business Network (WABN)

o Topic: Women in Sport • Dr Fiona Bull, Programme Manager, Surveillance Population Based Prevention, Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases (PND), World Health Organisation

o Topic: Active Cities & Healthy Societies • Fraser Bullock, COO & CFO, Salt Lake City 2002

o Topic: Economics, Legacy & The New Norm: Debate • Sharnelle Cader, Change Agent, World YMCA

o Topic: Social Inclusion & Cohesive Societies • Giulia Carbone, Deputy Director, Business Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature

o Topic: Sustainability Through Sport • Marisol Casado, IOC Member, President of the International Triathlon Union & IOC Gender Equality Review Working Group Chair

o Topic: Women in Sport • Pedro Cavazzoni, CEO, Brazilian Snow Sports Federation • Kirsty Leigh Coventry, Five-time Olympian & Chair, IOC Athletes’ Commission

o Topic: Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting • Jennifer Dahlgren, Hammer Throw Olympian (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016)

o Topics: Values of Olympism and the Future of the Games • Muffy Davis, 7-time Paralympic Medallist & Governing Board Member, International Paralympic Committee

o Topic: Protecting Athletes: Education & Deterrence • Valéry de Falbaire, Podiatrist Young Sport Ambassador

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Donna de Varona, Olympic Champion, Emmy Award Winning Broadcaster & Member of the IOC Women in Sport Commission

o Topic: Fan of the Future • Chris Dempsey, Co-Founder, No Boston Olympics

o Topic: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives • Alex Deibold, Professional Snowboarder & 2014 Olympic Bronze Medallist

o Topic: Sustainability Through Sport • Lord Paul Deighton, Former CEO, London 2012

o Topic: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives • Giovanni di Cola, Special Adviser to the Deputy Director General for Field Operations

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and Partnerships, International Labour Office, ILO

o Topic: Sport and Human Rights • Luke Dowdney, Founder & CEO, Fight for Peace

o Topic: Social Inclusion & Cohesive Societies • Charlotte Durif, Sport Climbing World Champion

o Topic: Urbanisation of Sports • David Eades, Chief Presenter, BBC & Conference Host and Moderator

o Topic: Social Inclusion and Cohesive Societies • Tony Estanguet, President, Paris 2024 & IOC Member

o Topic: Spotlight on Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games • Diamil Faye, President, Jappo Sports & Entertainment

o Topic: Future of Sport • John Furlong OC, OBC, President and CEO, Vancouver 2010

o Topic: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives • Espen Granberg Johnsen, Mayor of City Council, Lillehammer Municipality

o Topic: Active Cities & Healthy Societies • David Grevemberg CBE, Chief Executive, Commonwealth Games Federation

o Topic: Sport as a Human Right • Neşe Gündoğan, Secretary General, Turkish Olympic Committee

o Topic: Social Inclusion and Cohesive Societies • Dr Colin Harris, Former Professional Footballer & Academic, University of Brighton

o Topic: Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in port • David Harrison, Senior Investigative Reporter, Al Jazeera International

o Topic: Sports Betting & Match Fixing • Hiroko Morohashi, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Xebio Holdings

o Topic: New Frontiers: Urbanisation of Sport • Benjamin Cohen, Director General, International Testing Agency

o Topic: Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting • Leo Heileman, Regional Director and Representative of the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, UN Environment

o Topic: Sustainability Through Sport • Ruben Houkes, Olympic Bronze Medallist & Judo for Children Commission Member, International Judo Federation

o Topic: Judo for the World • Diane Huffman, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee & Confederation of Sports

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o Topic: Prevention of Harassment & Abuse in Sport • Razia Iqbal, Presenter, BBC News

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in Sport • Mogens Jensen, Rapporteur on Sports Governance of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Member of the Parliament of Denmark, The Social Democratic Party, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Parliament of Denmark, The Social Democratic Party

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in Sport • Kady Kanouté Tounkara, Zone 2 Chair, ANOCA

o Topic: Protecting Athletes: Education & Deterrence • Lindsey Kittredge, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Shooting Touch

o Topic: Using the Power of Basketball to Educate & Empower Youth • Mari Kiviniemi, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in Sport • Karen Leach, Child Protection Advocate

o Topic: Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport • Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in Sport • Brian Lewis, President, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) & Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC)

o Topic: Women in Sport • Michael Linklater, Six-year 3x3 World Tour Pro & 3x3 Canadian National Team Captain • Raúl Lucero, Ashoka Fellow

o Topic: Urbanisation of Sports • Jacob “Jake” Lyon, Professional Overwatch Player

o Topic: Esports • Raouf Mazou, Country Representative, Kenya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

o Topic: Social Inclusion and Cohesive Societies • Michael McNamee, Professor of Applied Ethics, College of Engineering, Swansea University

o Topic: Protecting Athletes: Considerations on Doping & Fair Play • Yusra Mardini, Swimmer, Refugee Olympic Team & Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR

o Topic: Journey from Refugee to Olympian: Sportlight on Rio 2016 Refugee Olympic Team • Claudio Marinelli, Project Manager, INTERPOL, Integrity in Sport Team

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o Topic: Sports Betting & Match Fixing • Miki Matheson, Education Committee Member, International Paralympic Committee & Project Manager, Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Centre, Japan

o Topic: Education & Skill Building Through Sport • Gabriela Matus Bonilla, Industrial Designer & IOC Young Change-Maker

o Topic: Sports Betting and Match Fixing • Nicolas Messner, Director, IJF Media, Judo for Peace

o Topic: Judo for the World • Professor Andy Miah, Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford

o Topic: Protecting Athletes: Considerations on Doping & Fair Play • David Millar, Former Pro Cyclist & Founder, CHPT3

o Topic: Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting • Samantha Miyanda, Young Change-Maker, International Olympic Committee

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director

o Topic: Women in Sport • Bill Morris, International Events Consultant & Ex-Director of Culture, Ceremonies, Education and Live Sites, London 2012

o Topic: Active Cities & Healthy Societies • Arnaud Mourot, Co-Director, Ashoka Europe

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Adnan Nawaz, News Anchor, TRT World

o Topic: Combatting Doping • Mamadou D. Ndiaye, IOC Member

o Topic: Sport & Huamn Rights • Alexandra Orlando, Marketing Director, Canadian Olympian (Rhythmic Gymnastics), Pan-American Sports Organisation

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in pSort • Oliver Percovich, Founder & Executive Director, Skateistan

o Topic: Education and Empowerment Through Skateboarding • Jean-Briac (JB) Perrette, President & Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Networks International

o Topic: Fan of the Future • Dr Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, Global Technology & Sustainability Director,

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Solutions, The Dow Chemical Company

o Topic: Sustainability Through Sport • Andres Polo, Vice-President, Global Innovation Marketing, Visa Inc.

o Topic: Fan of the Future • Sonali Prasad, Print and Data Journalist, Olympic Information Services Photo Project

o Topic: The Power of the Olympic Truce • Dr Holger Preuss, Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University

o Topic: Economics, Legacy & The New Norm • Dan Reed, Head of Global Sports Partnerships, Facebook

o Topic: Sport as a Human Right • Francesco Ricci Bitti, President, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations

o Topic: Combatting Corruption in Sport • Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mayor, Buenos Aires City Government

o Topic: Spotlight on Buenos Aires • Jean-Christophe Rolland, President, World Rowing Federation

o Topic: Sustainability Through Sport • Mariana Rufolo, Ashoka Fellow

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Angela Ruggiero, CEO and Co-Founder, Sports Innovation Lab & Four-Time Olympian in Ice Hockey

o Topic: Olympian to Socially Conscious Entrepreneur: A New Career Path? • Fernanda Russo, Shooter, Silver Medallist, Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014 & Young Change-Maker, Argentine Delegation, Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018

o Topic: Spotlight on Buenos Aires • Josefina Salas, Former Young Change-Maker • Juan Pablo Salazar, Governing Board Member, International Paralympic Committee

o Topic: Sport as a Human Right • Juan Sanchez, IOC YCM+ & Strategic Lead, Dilema.org

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Kouv Chan ‘Tin’ Sangva, Program Officer, Skateistan

o Topic: Education and Empowerment Through Skateboarding • Sylvia Schenk, Chair of the Working Group on Sport, Transparency International

o Topic: Sports Betting & Match Fixing • Alexander Schischlik, Chief, Youth and Sport Section, UNESCO

o Topic: Education and Skill Building Through Sport

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• Susanne Schödel, Secretary General, FAI World Air Sports Federation

o Topic: The Future of Sport • Sonali Shah, Broadcaster and Journalist, BBC

o Topic: Economics, Legacy and the New Norm • Dr Maurice Smith, Clinical Director, Living Well, NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group

o Topic: Active Cities & Healthy Societies • Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, Anti-Doping Whistleblower & Former Employee of Russian Anti-Doping Agency; Anti-Doping Whistleblower & Elite Athlete

o Topic: Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting • Dr Karl Stoss, IOC Member & Advisory Board Member, OM Unit PMC

o Topic: Sports Betting & Match Fixing • Rabbi Carlos A. Tapiero, Deputy-Director General, Maccabi World Union

o Topic: Social Inclusion and Cohesive Societies • Dr T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

o Topic: Esports • Dr Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato, Associate Professor of Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato

o Topic: Urbanisation of Sports • Maria Toorpakai Wazir, Professional Squash Player & Founder, Maria Toorpakai Foundation

o Topic: Fighting for the Right to Play Sport • Sandrine “Dudu” Uwiduhaye, Head Coach, Shooting Touch

o Topic: Using the Power of Basketball to Educate and Empower Youth • Nicky Van Rossem, Project Officer, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee

o Topic: Protecting Athletes: Education & Deterrence • Marius Vizer, President, International Judo Federation

o Topic: Judo for the World • Morinari Watanabe, International Gymnastics Federation President

o Topic: Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport • Richard Watson, Executive Director, The Gambling Commission

o Topic: Sports Betting and Match Fixing • Evelyn Watta, Vice President, International Sports Press Association & News Producer, Olympic Channel

o Topic: Women in Sport

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• Casey Wasserman, Chairman, Los Angeles 2028

o Topic: Spotlight on Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games • Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives, Humans Right Watch

o Topic: Sport and Human Rights • Shu’an Yang, Vice-President, Beijing 2022

o Topic: Hosting the Olympic Games: City Perspectives • Günter Younger, Director, Intelligence and Investigations, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

o Topic: Combatting Doping in Sport: A Battle Worth Fighting • Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 & Founder, Grameen Bank

o Topic: Generating Social Change Through Sport • Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics and Operations and Strategy, NBC Sports Group

o Topic: Fan of the Future • Andrew Zimbalist, Chairperson and Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College

o Topic: Economics, Legacy and the New Norm

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BACKGROUNDERS ON THEMES DISCUSSED AT THE FORUM

Refugees and Sport

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that more than 68.5 million people have been forced from their homes by war, famine and other man-made and natural disasters.

Solidarity is truly an everyday occurrence in sport and at the heart of the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Movement, the examples are countless and global. The IOC seeks to develop partnerships that place sport at the service of humankind and using it as a pathway for social, physical and emotional well-being.

BACKGROUND

The IOC stands with refugees. As part of their aim of building a better world through sport, the IOC believes that sport should be used as a powerful tool for protection, which unites people, promotes a culture of peace, youth development, education, social integration, health, and can protect from risks of abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence.

The IOC redistributes more than 90 per cent of its income to the wider sporting movement, which means that every day the equivalent of $3.4 million USD goes to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world.

In 2015, the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) was formed, consisting of ten athletes to represent the voices that cannot be heard. It was a historic moment in Brazil when the ROT participated for the first time ever in the Olympic Games at Rio 2016.

During the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the IOC promoted the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect through the “Become the Light” campaign, which aimed to bring sustainable, solar-powered light solutions to refugee camps. The Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda will be the first to benefit from this effort in the coming months.

A LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY

For more than 20 years, the IOC has had a partnership with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) resulting in the implementation of sports projects in more than 45 countries, including the provision of basic sports equipment, rehabilitation of sports grounds, and organisation of regular recreational activities. More specifically, some of these projects include:

• IOC funded multi-purpose sport facility in Azraq refugee camp in Jordan • IOC providing funding for multi-purpose youth and sport centres in Ethiopia • Past initiatives: IOC Honorary President previously appointed as Special Envoy on Youth Refugees and Sport • Giving is Winning collaborative project and sports kits distribution • Creation of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team ahead of Rio 2016, as part of its pledge to raise awareness of the magnitude of the refugee crisis. • 21 Olympic Solidarity programmes with a strong focus on athlete training and development as well as education, through which the IOC redistributes a share of NOC’s broadcast rights from the Olympic Games funds according to needs and priorities of NOCs and Continental Associations.

OLYMPIC SOLIDARITY

Olympic Solidarity is the body that is responsible for organizing assistance for all of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), particularly those with the greatest needs, through multi-faceted programmes prioritizing athlete development, training of coaches and support administrators and promoting Olympic ideals. To date, 21 programmes have been created.

There are three sections of the function, including World Programmes, Continental Programmes and IOC Subsidies for Participation in Olympic Games. They cover the objectives of the NOCs, which are mainly to improve their functioning and organizational ability; to create or develop efficient structures; to organize training courses at various levels; and to profit from the technical and financial resources available, which in turn will benefit their athletes.

Some of the outcomes of Olympic Solidarity include:

• For the first time, the Olympic Solidarity Plan 2017- 2020 has a budget of over $500 million USD (almost 16 per cent higher than for the previous plan) thanks to the great success of the Olympic Games Rio 2016. • A specific Refugee Athlete Support programme enabled NOCs in countries that admit refugees to identify and support elite refugee athletes. This includes a training grant and travel allowance to enable athletes to train for and participate in international competitions, as well as technical and financial assistance to identify athletes (in cooperation with UNHCR) and provide training and education. o To date, 39 refugee athletes have been assisted through this programme. • Creation of the Olympic Refuge Foundation to develop sporting activities and social development projects in areas where there are refugees, displaced migrant population and internally displaced people. Some of these projects include: o Sport for Hope Centres in Haiti and Zambia o ICRC partnership in Jamaica (2015/2016) to build resilience through sport in violence-affected communities • Sport and Active Society development grants worth USD 20,000 each to award to organisations that are running effective Sport for All programmes in their communities

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON REFUGEES AND SPORT INCLUDE*:

• Thomas Bach, IOC President • Yusra Mardini, Olympic swimmer, Refugee Olympic Team Rio 2016, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador • Yiech Pur Biel, Olympic , Refugee Olympic Team Rio 2016 • Waleed Abu Nada, Young Change-Maker from Jordan • Gabriela Matus, Young Change-Maker from Guatemala • Luke Dowdney, Fight for Peace Founder and CEO

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Integrity in Sport

In order for sport to be a positive force across the world, it is critical that its integrity is upheld and those that seek to exploit it through corruption are prevented from getting a foothold at any level. It is collective responsibility and shared challenge for all of the individuals, organisations and bodies involved in sport to ensure the value of excellence, fair-play and respect are upheld.

The International Olympic Committee is committed to strengthening the integrity of sports organisations and protecting clean athletes. The fight against doping and any other forms of cheating in sport on the one hand, and the strengthening of ethics with improvements in transparency, good governance and accountability of sports organisations on the other, are top priorities for the IOC.

BACKGROUND

The popularity and influence of sport across the world has made it a target for those seeking to gain benefit through its corruption. This battle for the integrity of sport is a global effort bringing together organisations, agencies and governments and in its role as the world’s leading sports authority, the IOC is central to these efforts.

The IOC has continuously set up structures, policies, processes and programmes to improve integrity at competitions and within its own organisation, and any time needed, the IOC acts to tackle ethical misconduct.

As leader of the Olympic Movement, it works with the various stakeholders of the Olympic Movement to help enhance governance across all levels. To maximise the impact of these activities, the IOC likewise coordinates with governments, international organisations, non- governmental organisations (NGOs) and many more stakeholders. These efforts are ongoing and keep evolving to anticipate new trends and adjust to new situations in the best possible way.

CREDIBILITY IN SPORT

The IOC has long been a leader in strengthening the integrity of sports organisations, protecting clean athletes and ensuring the credibility of competitions and sports organisations, which is one of the three pillars of Olympic Agenda 2020.

Some of the steps the IOC has taken to preserve integrity in sport include:

• The IOC was the first sports organisation to set up an independent Ethics Commission in 1999, which was composed of nine members, many of which, including the Chair, are independent and not linked to the IOC. • Founding member of the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport (IPACS). The IPACS is a multi-stakeholder platform that includes the UK government, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Council of Europe and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It seeks to strengthen and support efforts to eliminate corruption and promote good governance in and around sport. • Since 2008, the IOC’s Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) has monitored gambling activity around each version of the Games, it has also been made available to international federations and multi-sport event organisers. • Each Games are required to comply with the WADA Anti-Doping Code as well as the IOC’s own rules and regulations on doping and competition manipulation.

• The IOC’s partnership with INTERPOL has been renewed until 2021 to provide training programmes to raise awareness and encourage intelligence gathering on activities that may damage the integrity of sport. • The Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) works to monitoring betting on all Olympic competitions and has been monitored since Beijing 2008. It is operational during every Olympic Games since Sochi 2014, and now permanently available to IFs and organisers of multisport events, whenever there is a need for intelligence.

CONSTANTLY EVOLVING TO PROTECT INTEGRITY

Built into Agenda 2020 and the New Norm are a number of measures designed to protect the integrity of sport in the future. The processes of bidding for and hosting a Games provide opportunities for corruption and therefore the IOC has clearly defined new safeguards to protect those who may be targeted due to the influence.

The new Host City Contract features anti-corruption clauses and candidate cities are required to maintain a public register of the consultants they have worked with on their bids.

At the same time, the IOC has introduced new election procedures, terms and age limits through a new Code of Conduct that will limit the opportunities for issues such as conflicts of interest. IOC members are now required to abstain from votes relating to their home nations or sport.

The IOC also works to ensure integrity within its own structures and promotes ethical and basic universal principles of good governance through the Olympic Movement. The is the codification of the fundamental principles of Olympism and within that Charter, the Code of Ethics serves as a framework of ethical principles based upon Olympic values and principles. The Basic Universal Principles of Good Governance, which were approved by the XIII Olympic Congress in 2009, ensures all members adopt its minimum requirements.

The IOC’s work to protect sport is never done and it continues to work closely with the various stakeholders to ensure that as those seeking to corrupt the sanctity of sport open up new opportunities they are quickly closed.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON INTEGRITY IN SPORT INCLUDE*:

• Thomas Bach, IOC President • Pâquerette Girard-Zappelli, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer • Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, IOC Member, Member of IOC Ethics Commission and Chair of Audit Committee, NOC President Belgium – can comment on audit, organisational integrity and good governance. • Dr Karl Stoss, IOC Member & Advisory Board Member, OM Unit PMC, Austria • Friedrich Martens, Head of OM Unit - Prevention of Manipulation of Competitions, IOC • Sylvia Schenk, Chair of the Working Group on Sport, Transparency International • Richard Watson, Interim Executive Director, Gambling Commission,

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

The Fight Against Doping

The fight against doping is a top priority for the International Olympic Committee which has established a zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating and to make anyone responsible for using or providing doping products accountable.

To maintain the sporting integrity of the Olympic Games, the IOC works closely with its partners – including the World Anti-Doping Association, International Federations (IFs), the National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO), and the International Testing Agency (ITA) – to ensure that the Olympic Games provide a level playing field for all clean athletes.

BACKGROUND

The IOC’s fight against doping began in earnest in the 1960s. It is currently carried out in close cooperation with WADA – which was created in 1999 in under the initiative of the IOC – and with the support and participation of intergovernmental organizations, governments, administrations and other public and private bodies involved in the fight against doping in sport.

The IOC is committed to ensuring that all sport is fair for all participants. Through a combination of education and policing in collaboration with partner organisations, the IOC does everything in its power to ensure that only “clean” athletes make it to the Games. To that end, the IOC asks that IFs and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) intensify their testing and other anti-doping efforts in the build-up to the Games.

A JOINT EFFORT

The IOC works closely with sports federations, local organising committees and national governments across the world to educate athletes on the consequences of doping, create an environment where it will never be tolerated and sanction those who fail to heed the warnings.

The IOC partners with a number of organisations and has instigated a number of commissions to support the fight against doping, including:

• The World Anti-Doping Code has been made mandatory for the entire Olympic Movement, and the IOC provides 50 per cent of the funding for WADA and is the biggest single contributor to the organisation. The other 50 per cent comes from governments around the world. • The Independent Testing Agency (ITA) has been formed with the support of the IOC to ensure that the integrity and independence of the testing process is unquestionable. The Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games will be the first event to be tested by the ITA. • Authorising the Oswald Commission and report to investigate the alleged doping violations by Russian athletes at Sochi 2014 • Authorising the Schmid Commission and report to address the systematic manipulation of the anti-doping system in Russia • Instigating the re-analysis programme which has reanalysed samples from Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Sochi 2014.

LEADING IN THE SPORTING ARENA – PEYONGCHANG 2018

The fight against doping during an Olympic Games falls under the remit of the IOC. The IOC Medical and Scientific Commission requires the local Organising Committee of an Olympic Games to collect urine and blood samples in compliance with the International Standard for Testing and Investigations. In addition, the IOC agrees on the number of tests to perform in collaboration with the IFs concerned, the Organising Committee and the laboratory accredited for the Olympic Games.

During the Games period (from the Opening of the Village to the Closing Ceremony), all athletes taking part in an Olympic Games may be tested before or at a competition, whether inside the Olympic Village, inside or outside Olympic venues, or anywhere in the world.

• The anti-doping programme in PyeongChang included smarter and more targeted testing, continuing the work of the pre-Games testing taskforce, which had shifted to an improved and intelligent testing system. • 3,149 anti-doping tests were conducted during PyeongChang 2018, making it the most robust anti-doping programme in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. Of these tests, 1,393 were in competition, and 1,756 were out of competition. • PyeongChang 2018 was also the most rigorous and record targeted pre-games anti- doping testing programme with more than 17,000 targeted tests on more than 6,000 athletes. • Doping controls, results management and sanctioning were independent from the IOC at PyeongChang 2018 – a first at an Olympic Games. • The transition between the pre-Games testing and the doping controls during the Olympic Games was made easy by the presence in PyeongChang of GAISF’s Doping Free Sport Unit (DFSU), the secretariat of the pre-Games taskforce and now the operational nucleus of the International Testing Agency (ITA). • For the first time at the Winter Games, use of video surveillance, with the Seoul lab being monitored by 24/7 video surveillance. Footage to be kept for 10 years after the Games. • Samples from PyeongChang 2018 will be kept for 10 years and may be tested retroactively as new detection technologies become available.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON THE FIGHT AGAINST DOPING INCLUDE*:

• Dr Budgett, IOC Medical & Scientific Director • Kirsty Coventry, IOC AC Chair and member of WADA athletes committee • Danka Bartekova, VP IOC Athletes Commission • Valérie Fourneyron, ITA President • Sir Craig Reedie, WADA President • David Millar, Former Pro Cycllist and Founder, CHPT3

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

The Future of the Games

The Olympic Games have been a catalyst for positive change and are a platform that galvanise and assemble all the positive energy, creativity and talent that a city, a region and country can offer. It is truly a unique opportunity to discuss and develop long term ambitions of that city.

However, the economics of hosting the Games if often misunderstood. Recognizing the challenges and benefits of such an undertaking, the International Olympic Committee has instituted a number of reforms as part of its Olympic Agenda 2020’s ‘the New Norm’ which was designed to rethink how the Games are organised and to ensure that future Games will offer a unique opportunity to deliver against the long-term ambitions of cities, nations and their people.

BACKGROUND

Hosting the Olympic Games has always been seen as the ultimate opportunity to celebrate a city, a nation, a people and their culture. However, as they have grown in size and complexity it has become increasingly important for the IOC to support host cities to ensure they are able to deliver cost effective Games that deliver a sustainable positive legacy for generations to come. The IOC recognised the need for change and developed a series of initiatives to maintain the true values of the Olympic Games and maximise opportunities offered by sport.

THE NEXT STAGE OF OLYMPIC AGENDA 2020: THE NEW NORM

The New Norm is based on an extensive review of the experience of previous hosts. It delivers increased flexibility, transparency, and cooperating between the host and the IOC, from the initial expression of interest through to post-Games. The New Norm ensures the long-term legacy and sustainability are built into the Games planning, implementation and execution, while significantly reducing costs.

The New Norm document presented 118 reforms that are estimated to reduce the costs of staging the Winter Games by $500m and the Summer Games by $1billion.

Some of the main considerations of the reforms include:

• Greater collaboration between interested cities and the IOC during the candidature process, which itself has been completely remodelled. • More support to cities with activities also being delivered by the Olympic family – in particular International Federations (IFs), National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and sponsors/partners • The events industry can also supply ready-made solutions, simplifying the scope of work and knowledge needed by an OCOG • Meanwhile, a “3+4 year” approach to staffing an Organising Committee would streamline production and decrease human resource needs in the first three years • They also call for the maximum use of existing facilities and temporary / demountable venues as well as competitions or venues outside the host country for reasons of sustainability • And ensure that the legacy vision, objectives and funding are an integral part of the management of the Games from the early stages

REFORMS ALREADY TAKING SHAPE

Since launching earlier this year, the IOC has already seen the effects of the reforms take hold even in Organising Committees that have not been able to take full advantage of the measures.

• A joint coordination process between national and regional government, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 has already assisted in reducing Tokyo’s revised venue budget by USD 2.2 billion. • In Paris, more than 85% of the competition venues already exist or will be temporary. • They also plan to utilize Paris’ renowned transit system at their Olympic Games, drastically reducing costs. • In Los Angeles, no new construction will be needed, significantly reducing the budget • In regard to Candidate Cities currently in the dialogue phase, there is an average of 80 per cent existing venues proposed across the five projects, compared with 60 per cent in the two previous candidature processes. • Several organisational budgets put forward by candidate cities have also been reduced from around USD 2 billion to USD 1.7 billion. • The Swedish Olympic Committee has signed an agreement with the Latvian Olympic Committee and the city of Sigulda to use their local sliding centre in the Stockholm project for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 as the most suitable nearby existing venue instead of building a venue. • According to its first public report, the Calgary Bid Exploration Committee for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 is considering hosting the Ski Jumping events in the venue built at the Whistler Olympic Park for Vancouver 2010 as it would save millions of dollars from the organising budget.

BUENOS AIRES AS A WINDOW INTO TOKYO 2020

Both the Forum and the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires will serve as a preview into Tokyo 2020 by being more youthful, urban and women-led, and as a window into the future of the Olympic Games.

• The YOG 2018 is a platform for new sports and the innovations that will be part of Tokyo 2020, including skateboarding, sport climbing, BMX freestyle and . New sports reflect the passions of a new generation of athletes and signal where the IOC is going in the future • Since its inception in Singapore in 2010, the YOG has served as window into the future of the Games by providing a platform for the IOC to add mixed events to the programme and as a step change in the Olympic programme • The YOG reflect the diversity of a modern society. YOG Buenos Aires 2018 will set a precedent for gender equality as the first full gender equal Games with equal 50:50 male/females athletes

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON THE FUTURE OF THE GAMES INCLUDE*:

• Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games Executive Director • John Coates, Australian IOC Member • Juan Antonio Samarach, IOC Vice President • Fraser Bullock, COO and CFO, Salt Lake City 2002 • Lord Paul Deighton, Former CEO, London 2012

• Tony Estanguet, Olympic Champion in Canoeing, IOC Member and President of Paris 2024 • Casey Wasserman, Chairman, LA 2028 • Espen Granberg Johnsen, Mayor, Lillehammer • Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mayor, Buenos Aires • Professor Holger Preuss, Prof of Sport Economics and Sport Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Safeguarding from Harassment and Abuse in Sport

Sport is global, crossing cultures and law. However, there is one culture that must apply to everyone, and that is one of respect. The International Olympic Committee firmly believes that harassment and abuse have no place in sport, nor society and advocated for safe sports.

BACKGROUND

Athletes are at the heart of the Olympic Movement, and the IOC is committed to their safety and wellbeing. The prevention of harassment and abuse in sport is a collective responsibility of the sporting community; a safe sport environment requires commitment from athletes, coaches, doctors, officials, families, organisations and everyone in between. By standing together against harassment and abuse in sport, we can make the world a better and safer place for us all.

The IOC plays a leading role in this important area of athlete welfare and has several Prevention of Harassment and Abuse in Sport (PHAS) initiatives in place, including clear measures for the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 to educate athletes, reinforce their rights and ensure they can report any incident of harassment and abuse in sport.

DEFINING HARASMENT AND ABUSE

Harassment and abuse in sport take many forms. It is important to understand the various forms that exist so that the proper preventative, reporting and support measures are in place to protect athletes. Harassment and abuse can be expressed in five forms, which may occur in combination or in isolation. These include: i) psychological abuse, ii) physical abuse, iii) sexual harassment, iv) sexual abuse, and v) neglect.

A LEADING VOICE ON SAFEGUARDING

The IOC’s mission is to place athletes at the heart of the Olympic Movement, and Olympic Agenda 2020 sets out the strategic roadmap for this. This includes Recommendation 18: Strengthen support to athletes. Through this recommendation, the IOC has taken significant steps to safeguard athletes from harassment and abuse in sport.

• In November 2017, the IOC launched a toolkit to assist International Sports Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to develop and implement their own athlete-safeguarding policies and procedures. • Since September 2017, the IOC offers a free course for athletes and athletes’ entourages and organisation members on the IOC’s Athlete Learning Gateway to learn the core components of athlete safeguarding. • IOC has been working to identify tools to safeguard athletes from harassment and abuse in sport since 2004, when they committed to find a solution to protect athletes. Throughout this period, the IOC has commissioned researchers to study why and how such incidents happen, and more importantly, how can they be prevented. • Publication of a revised Consensus Statement: Harassment and Abuse in Sport in 2015, building on evidence initially reported in 2007.

SAGEGUARDING AT YOG BUENOS AIRES 2018

In preparation for the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, a youth safeguarding strategy has been developed to ensure sport is safe, fair and free from all forms of harassment and abuse. Some of the main points include: • An IOC Safeguarding Officer present at the Youth Olympic Village throughout the Games. Anyone will be able to report any incident of harassment or abuse via the IOC Safeguarding Officer, who in turn, will handle each report through a confidential procedure. • Experts on the ground to deliver these tools at a dedicated #SafeSport booth to inform young athletes about the risk and their rights. Educational materials, activities and information available throughout YOG to athletes and participants. • Delegation of power from IOC Executive Board to an IOC Disciplinary Commission to hear and decide cases of alleged violations.

#safesport #zerotolerance

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON SAFEGUARDING FROM HARASSMENT IN SPORT INCLUDE*:

• HRH Prince Feisal al Hussein, IOC Member, Chair of Working Group on PHAS • Morinari Watanabe, FIG President • Sarah Lewis, FIS Secretary General • Hailey Wickenheiser, Olympic Champion and IOC Athletes’ Commission Member • Dr Richard Budgett, IOC Medical and Scientific Director • Susan Greinig, IOC Safeguarding Officer • Colin Harris, Academic and ‘survivor’ of abuse

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Gender Equality

Sport is one of the most powerful platforms for promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls, and the IOC had made supporting it a priority. Both on and off the field, all stakeholders in the Olympic Movement are working toward both gender equality for all and gender parity in the Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games (YOG) and in the administration and leadership of international sport. In fact, YOG Buenos Aires 2018 has the distinction of being the first fully gender-balanced Olympic event.

BACKGROUND

Although gender equality in sport has come a long way, there is still more work to be done. The IOC has long forged a path by raising awareness of the importance of gender equality both on and off the field of play. From governance to human resources, to funding, sport and portrayal, the IOC focuses on achieving tangible results to strengthen gender equality across the Olympic Movement.

THE GENDER EQUALITY REVIEW PROJECT

Over the last year, the IOC has forged a new path in advancing gender equality within the sporting arena and beyond with its Gender Equality Review Project that was launched in February 2018. The goal of the project is to strengthen gender equality across the entire Olympic Movement through 25 action-oriented recommendations across five key themes: governance, human resources, funding, sport and portrayal. All stakeholders have joined the conversation, including International Federations, OCOGs, NOCs, IOC administration, TOPs and NGOs.

The Gender Equality Working Group was led by Marisol Casado, an IOC Member and President of the International Triathlon Union. She was joined by IOC Members, NOCs, and Summer and Winter IF representatives who had been selected for the leadership of gender equality efforts within their own organisations.

EQUALISING ON AND OFF THE PLAYING FIELD

There has been great progress on the field of play, and all of the recommendations of the Gender Equality Review Project are aimed at producing concrete results in equalising international sport today. Off the field, the IOC has pushed for more progress in developing pipelines for professional development and equal access to many different kinds of sporting roles—from leadership and administration to coaching, from medical support to technical officials and more.

Some of the ways the IOC does this is through: • Within the IOC Code of Ethics, Article 1 rejects discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation. • Introducing the New Leaders Programme, a legacy project of 2017 IOC World Trophy Winner, Birgitta Kervinen (Finland). This programme aims to create change- makers, women and men, and create a network of leaders ready to implement good governance and closing the gender gap in their respective organizations. • Engaging in Strategic partnerships with international organisations. For example, the IOC works with UN Women to capitalise on transformational power of sport to foster gender equality and equal opportunities for women and men worldwide

• Improving gender equality within the Young Reporters Programme where 30 young reporters from five continents receive intensive class and field training in written, photographic, television, radio and new media reporting on sports.

TANGIBLE RESULTS IN THE SPORTING ARENA

This October in Buenos Aires, for the first time ever, half of the athletes at the Youth Olympic Games will be women, with an increase in the number of women’s events and mixed-gender events. Similarly, the Winter YOG Lausanne 2020 will also have full gender balance, and for the first time at a Winter Olympic event, with the highest number of women’s events and women ever competing at a Winter YOG.

These achievements follow on the heels of the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang in February, where 41.9 percent of competitors were female, a record number for the Olympic Winter Games. Near total gender parity—at 48 percent female representation—is predicted for the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2020.

BALANCING THE IOC ADMINISTRATION

The IOC has also put a sustained effort into balancing the ranks of its own leadership and membership: the number of female IOC Members continues to steadily increase with 29 female members (29%) against 22.6% in 2014. There are three women up for election as individual IOC Members during the IOC Session in Buenos Aires. In addition, the IOC has increased the number of women in its Commissions to 42% in 2018 compared to 25.8% in 2014. Finally, the IOC Executive Board saw an increase in female members as well, with 30.8% in 2018, up from 21.4% in 2017.

TRANSGENDER EQUALITY

Later this year, the IOC will publish guidelines for transgender athletes in the Olympic Movement. These guidelines will seek to promote equality and fairness for all athletes on and off the field of play in international sport.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON GENDER EQUALITY INCLUDE*:

• Marisol Casado, chair of the IOC Gender Equality Working Group, member of the IOC Women in Sport Commission • Lydia Nsekera, IOC Women in Sport Commission Chair • Prince Faisal, co-chair of IOC Women in Sport Commission • Christophe de Kepper, IOC DG and Gender champion • Thomas Bach, IOC President, HeforShe Champion • Phumzile Lmambo-Ngzuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, UN Women • Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak, Global Vice Chair, Public Policy at Ernst & Young and Founder, EY Women Athletes Business Network (WABN)

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Sustainability

The International Olympic Committee recognizes the need for urgent action to protect the climate and natural environments. This is a key topic not only when assessing the long-term viability of infrastructure built for the Olympic Games, but as well as for the environments in which many Olympic sports are conducted. Not only do several sports depend on this, but sport is a platform to educate the public on the importance of best sustainability practices.

BACKGROUND

Throughout its history, the IOC has sought to use the power of sport to address some of the key issues facing society and the environment. Sustainability has become an increasing focal point for the IOC and took a strong turn with the introduction of the Olympic Agenda 2020 which codified the need for social, environmental and economic sustainability to be at the heart of every aspect of the Games. This commitment was further emphasised in The New Norm, launched in 2018.

In 2016, the IOC and the Olympic Movement reaffirmed this commitment by approving the sustainability strategy and defining two-time frames, 2020 and 2030, highlighting the long- term concept of sustainability as well as aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The IOC has three primary spheres of responsibility, including: as an organisation, as owner of the Olympic Games and; as leader of the Olympic Movement. Within that, the IOC focuses its efforts on five key areas, including infrastructure & natural sites, sourcing and resource management, mobility, workforce and climate.

COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABILITY

• The IOC is working closely with the United Nations to ensure that the power of sport is utilised fully in the work to achieve the SDGs. • Each host city is supported by and collaborates with the IOC to develop and deliver against the sustainability plans that formed a key element of the bid to host the Olympic Games. • The IOC works with International Sports Federations to ensure they integrate sustainability into all of their activities and in doing so protect the legacy of their sports. • Working closely with the C40 to ensure that all future host cities are able to achieve their sustainability objectives and contribute positively to their region’s climate initiatives.

BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE NOW

• Both Paris and Los Angeles have committed to making their version of the the most sustainable in history with increased focus on the reuse of existing facilities, improving public transport and creating community programmes that enhance social cohesion and health for now and into the future. • The IOC is an active member of the Clean Seas Initiative which is seeking to rid our oceans of the plastic pollution. • The New Norm has established cost savings for host cities aimed at preventing the legacy of the games being a financial burden on community and instead provide the backbone future positive change.

• The new Olympic House has been designed to minimise the IOC’s impact on the environment and create a workspace that will ensure its staff are able to thrive and develop. The building has been designed and built to minimise its environmental impact with renewable energy, rainwater harvesting and upcycling just some of the features.

SUSTAINABILITY IN BUENOS AIRES

• Education is a key part of sustainability and the “One World, Many Worlds” programme has enabled 206 schools in Buenos Aires to find out more about the 206- member countries of the IOC. • The Youth Olympic Village in Buenos Aires contains 1,200 homes which will be inhabited by families after the Games are over. • All the sports equipment used during the YOG has already been allocated to help develop the next generation of Argentinian athletes, for example there will be 7,093 balls left over from the various sports. • The YOG Sustainability Policy will protect many things including the inclusion of all, the promotion of gender equality and the involvement of local youth.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON SUSTAINABILITY INCLUDE*:

• Marie Sallois, IOC Director for Department for Corporate Development, Brand and Sustainability • Michelle Lemaitre, IOC Head of Sustainability • Lise Van Long, IOC Sustainability Manager, focusing on IOC-specific sustainability practices (Olympic House, internal policies, carbon emissions at the Forum, etc.) • Giulia Carbone, Deputy Director, Global Business & Biodiversity Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Italy • Alex Deibold, Professional Snowboarder & 2014 Olympic Bronze Medalist, United States • Leo Heileman, Regional Director and Representative of the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, UN Environment • David Katoatau, Professional Weightlifter, Kiribati • Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, Global Technology & Sustainability Director, Olympic & Sports Solutions, The Dow Chemical Company, United States • Jean-Christophe Rolland, IOC Member, President of the World Rowing Federation

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Sport and Human Rights

Promoting human rights in and through sport are of high importance to the International Olympic Committee as human rights are firmly anchored in the Olympic Charter. Basic human rights are an expectation, sport is the equaliser.

“In Olympic sport, all people are equal, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, social status, cultural background, or belief. This principle of non-discrimination allows sport to promote peace and understanding among all people because the same rule applies to everybody.” - IOC President Thomas Bach

BACKGROUND

Human rights at the core of the Olympic Charter and of the Code of Ethics. The IOC’s mission to put sport at the service of humanity goes hand-in-hand with human rights. For the IOC, the practice of sport is a human right.

To realize the full power of sport, all actors must play their vital roles in protecting, respecting and upholding the human rights of athletes, workers, communities, children, fans, volunteers and the free press. As an organisation, the IOC seeks to promote a message of peace and tolerance throughout the Olympic Games but does not act in the role of a government. The IOC, as the leader of the Olympic Movement, acknowledges its responsibility to promote and ensure respect for human rights across the world of sport and mega-sporting events with adequate policies, comprehensive due diligence approaches, and effective remediation processes.

THE OLYMPIC CHARTER

The Olympic Charter is the codification of the fundamental principles of Olympism and the rules and by-laws adopted by the IOC. It governs the organisation, actions and functioning of the Olympic Movement and establishes the conditions for the celebration of the Olympic Games. It guarantees basic equal rights for everyone during the Olympic Games, such as non-discrimination or freedom of the press to report from the Olympic Games.

More specifically, Human Rights values are part of the Olympic values, as Fundamental Principle 6 states: “The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Olympic Charter shall be secured without discrimination of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property birth or other status.”

HOST CITY CONTRACT

The Host City Contract explicitly requires Organising Committees to comply with applicable local, regional and national laws as well as international agreements and protocols “with regard to planning, construction, protection of the environment, health and safety, labour and anti-corruption laws” on “development projects and other projects necessary for the organisation of the Games.”

PARTNERSHIPS TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS

The IOC actively partners with governments, international organisations, NGOs – such as the UNHCR, UN Women, ILO, and Sports Rights Alliance – to cooperate on important human rights issues, including:

• Working with Tokyo 2020 partners, including the Japanese government, TOCOG, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and others to enable the collective efforts between TOCOG and sponsor companies to respect human rights by specifically focussing on three subjects of significance: human rights risks, best practices, and grievance mechanisms. • Consulting with the Sports and Rights Alliance (SRA), which includes Transparency International Germany, UNI World Athletes, Terre des Hommes, the International Trade Union Confederation, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, to make specific changes to the Host City Contract 2024 operation requirements. Changes include introducing a section designed to strengthen provisions protecting human rights and countering fraud and corruption related to the organisation of the Olympic Games. • Partnering with a number of independent NGOs views with respect to a number of issues including human rights considered by IOC Evaluation Commission for first time during 2022 process. Issues were raised with government and local authorities and IOC received assurances that the principles of the Olympic Charter and the HCC will be respected in the context of the Games. BOCOG has since reaffirmed its commitment to respect the principles of the Olympic Charter and the HCC • Developing the Charter of Athlete Rights and Responsibilities to address both the rights and responsibilities of athletes as well as those of organizations. • Promoting equal access to sport, empowering women and girls through sport and increasing women’s leadership in sports.

HUMAN RIGHTS BREACHES

When IOC receives detailed allegations from external organisations/NGOs that are directly related to the Games, it has a long-standing commitment to follow-up on those issues with the local organising committee, and through them, the local authorities.

As an example, during the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014, the Olympic Charter was implemented on two occasions:

• Legislation in Russia prohibits the public promotion of homosexual orientation. IOC asked for and received assurances that this law would not apply for any of the participants of the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014. This assurance was respected. • Unpaid migrant workers on the Olympic sites. After the IOC raised this issue, and in consultation with ILO, more than 500 companies were investigated and unpaid wages in the amount of more than 8 million US dollars were paid to over 6,000 workers.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON SPORT AND HUMAN RIGHTS INCLUDE*:

• Thomas Bach, IOC President • Giovanni Di Cola, Special Advisor in the office of the deputy director general, ILO • David Grevemberg CBE, Chief Executive, Commonwealth Games Federation • Sylvia Schenk, Transparency International and Sport Rights Alliance *Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

Athlete Support

Athletes are at the heart of the International Olympic Committee’s mission. Our objective is to support athletes worldwide in their journey to become confirmed athletes and Olympians, without discrimination.

BACKGROUND Solidarity is a fundamental concept underpinning the modern Olympic Games. The Olympic Games offer the world’s athletes the opportunity to come together in the same city, the same “village” and the same stadium, with equal opportunities to compete, ensuring unique and inspiring stories.

The IOC believes that access to sport and the Olympic Games should be universal. That’s why it offers financial support to athletes from all backgrounds and helps develop sport worldwide, ensuring equality and accessibility for all athletes without discrimination. This includes equal chances for athletes with talent, regardless of the size or prosperity of their nation, or the sport they participate in.

IOC REVENUE DISTRIBUTION

The IOC revenue distribution model, including rule 40, is designed to financially support athletes from all background and develop sport worldwide, ensuring equality and accessibility for athletes without discrimination. This includes equal chances for athletes with talents regardless of the size or prosperity of their nation or the sport they participate in.

Proof in the numbers:

• The IOC distributes 90% of its revenues to support sport at all levels, including supporting athletes through funding and scholarships. • The IOC distributes $3,4 million USD every day to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world • Provided 449 individual Olympic Scholarships for PyeongChang 2018 • Awarded 1,325 individual Olympic Scholarships ahead of Tokyo 2020 • 1,041 activities organised to prepare athletes for the YOG (2013-2016)

RULE 40

Rule 40 is a by-law in the Olympic Charter that states that only approved sponsors are able to advertise during the Olympic Games. This is in place to prevent over commercialisation of the Olympic Games, and protect the uniqueness of the Olympic brand, and by extension, protect its principle of solidarity.

THE ATHLETES’ RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES DECLARATION

The Athletes’ Rights and Responsibilities Declaration is a historic initiative that aims to outline a common set of aspirational athletes’ rights and responsibilities regarding the exercise of their sport. It is an athlete-driven initiative, developed by athletes, for athletes, through a collaborative process with Olympic Movement stakeholders. It has been led, over the past year, by a group of 20 elite athlete representatives representing every continent.

• It provides a set of fundamental principles that are both universal and flexible enough to adapt to athletes’ needs across sports and countries.

• The Declaration explores topics such as anti-doping, integrity, clean sport, career, communications, governance, discrimination, due process, and abuse and harassment. It strives to promote respect for the identified rights and responsibilities through Olympic Movement Constituents. • It will be referenced in the Olympic Charter, signifying its important status within the Olympic Movement. The structure is in place for it to be modified as and when required. • An ongoing and ever-evolving process, the Declaration is not a one-off consultation but a living document which will have updates even after release to ensure continuous relevance • Thousands of athletes have come together to help shape this Declaration, representing many countries and sports disciplines. This is a fabulous achievement in its own right. Furthermore, the project has been through a thorough consultation exercise with stakeholders, athletes’ commissions and athletes directly.

SUPPORTING ATHLETES DURING AND AFTER THEIR SPORTING CAREER

The IOC works to assist athletes through various education and career programmes. Some of these include:

• Olympic Solidarity scholarships • Team support grants • Services provided at the Olympic Games • Youth Olympic Games – Athlete Support • Investments on the fight against doping and against competition manipulation • Promotion of gender equality and diversity • Athlete safeguarding initiatives • Athlete Career Transition • Refugee Athlete support • Athletes’ Rights and Responsibilities Declaration • Athlete365 Programmes • Continental Athlete Support Grant

INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE? SOME OF THE LEADING VOICES ON THIS TOPIC INCLUDE*:

• Kirsty Coventry, President of the IOC Athlete Commission • Sarah Walker, President of the Steering Committee of the Athlete’s Rights and Responsibilities Declaration • Kit McConnell, Sports Department Director

*Please get in contact with a member of the media team to speak to a spokesperson.

SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDE

The Basics

• Event Details: o When: October 5 & 6 o Where: Live in Buenos Aires + livestream on Olympic properties and social o What: The live event will have a live feed that shows the main Plenary sessions, the workshops will be shared as video on demand after the event o All the Latest: https://www.olympic.org/olympism-in-action • Include the hashtag #UnitedBy #OlympismInAction in any post you create

Event Hashtags

• Primary – used on all posts: • #OlympismInAction • #UnitedBy • Topics – used with content related to these areas: • #GenderEquality • #GoodGovernance • #Transparency • #OlympicAgenda2020 • #SafeSport • #FightAgainstDoping • #OlympicLegacy • #SustainabilityThroughSport • #OlympicHostCity • #Olympics • #YouthOlympics #YOG • #BA2018 and/or #BuenosAires2018 • #YOGJourney • #OlympicTruce • #SportsHumanRights • #CombattingCoruptionInSport • #FutureOfSport • #RefugeeOlympicTeam

The Handles to Watch

Across all social platforms, the following handles will bring to life different conversations during the Forum.

• @IOCMEDIA - where the IOC shares news updates and media focused information • @Olympics - where the IOC connects with the world around how Olympism comes to life each day through athletes, the Games, people and partners • @YouthOlympics - where conversation is focused on youth athletes and the conversations, moments and topics that matter most to them • @OlympicChannel – audience-centric channel focused on connecting youth with the Olympic movement, especially in the times between Games

What you can expect on these handles:

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• The IOC will livestream the event on its social handles: Facebook, , Youtube and the feed will be hosted on olympic.org • During the Forum we will focus on amplification and getting the audience ready to join us live for this important discussion

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ON SITE MEDIA CONTACTS

If you have any questions, would like to schedule an interview or need any information, please feel free to reach out to a member of our team who will be on the ground, including:

EMEA and North America Team

Danielle Leach E: [email protected] M: +44 790 400 8128

Steven Hirsch E: [email protected] M: +1 914 844 4978

Kathleen Edmondson: E: [email protected] M: +44 7507 903 457

Monica Gojman E: [email protected] M: +1 215 605 7252

Caroline Michelman E: [email protected] M: +1 925 819 2853

Argentina Team

Valeria Rodriguez E: [email protected] T: +54 11 4371 1295 (int 3548) M: +54 11 50585345

Maria Jose Pandullo E: [email protected] T: + 54 11 4371 1295 (int 3513) M: +54 1136536715

Marina Gimenez E: [email protected] T: + 54 11 4371 1295 (int 4113) M: +54 11 44264232

Augusto Denari E: [email protected] T: +54 11 4371 1295 (int 4108) M: +54 11 40287620

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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

PRESS RELEASE

International Olympic Committee announces Ball Game, a large-scale commissioned work by Argentinian conceptual artist Leandro Erlich

On view in Buenos Aires October 5-18, the participatory art installation celebrates the notion of coming together in the spirit of Olympism

Courtesy of Studio Leandro Erlich.

To mark the first-ever Olympism in Action Forum and upcoming Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, the International Olympic Committee has commissioned internationally celebrated conceptual artist Leandro Erlich to create a large-scale, temporary installation to bring to life the Olympic values.

Known for playing with human perception, Erlich will present Ball Game, an ensemble of five large- scale hyper-realistic sport balls (football, basketball, tennis, and golf), that will encourage the audience to experience the delight of moving beyond the everyday and into the festive terrain of Erlich’s humour and imagination. The work will first be displayed at the Olympism in Action Forum, outside of the Exhibition and Convention Centre in the Recoleta neighbourhood, where members of the Olympic Movement and civil society will discuss key topics related to sport and society. On Sunday morning, October 7, spectators will be invited to move Erlich’s ensemble together through the city’s public space to the Parque Tres de Febrero at the city’s Planetarium Galileo Galilei in the neighbourhood of Palermo in a performative action. Only through a true collective effort can spectators get the monumental balls rolling.

We were intrigued by Mr. Erlich’s concept of a work that offers a platform for interaction. His installation reflects the Olympic ideal of humanity in movement in celebration of sporting achievement, and also as the Olympic Movement unites to address important issues relevant to the future of sport and society during the Olympism in Action Forum.

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Francis Gabet, Director of the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage.

The sport balls are a simple visual expression of the unifying spirit of friendship, excellence, and respect…. faced with the challenge of moving these monumental objects, collaboration and fraternity become our natural response. This game invites us to move forward together, inspired by the Olympic values. Leandro Erlich.

In Buenos Aires, sports and art are passionately lived and are an essential part of our identity. This is the opportunity for all of us to be inspired by Olympic values and to share this celebration with the world. Enrique Avogadro, Culture Minister of the City of Buenos Aires.

While the commission is fully funded by the IOC, the city worked in close collaboration with the artist’s team on the permitting for public space needed to accommodate the project.

The IOC’s commission is part of a new and long-term programme of artist commissions under the umbrella of the Olympic Art Project, and initiative led by the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage to engage leading contemporary artists on a recurring basis to reinterpret the linkages between sport and culture that are fundamental to the Olympic Movement, and to help foster a fresh and dynamic dialogue around the Olympic values. This programme was set up in the framework of Olympic Agenda 2020, the strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, notably its recommendation 26, which aims to further strengthen the blending of sport and culture at the Olympic Games and in-between.

Ball Game by Leandro Erlich October 5-18, 2018

Venues : Buenos Aires Exhibition and Convention Centre, October 5-6, 2018 Av. Pres. Figueroa Alcorta 2005, Recoleta, CABA Planetarium Galileo Galilei, October 7-18 (from ca. 12 noon onwards on Oct. 7) Av. Sarmiento, Parque Tres de Febrero, CABA A performative action to occur on Av. Pres. Figueroa Alcorta (between Convention Centre and Planetarium) October 7, ca. 8-10 AM

Join the conversation: #OlympicArt #LeandroErlich https://twitter.com/iocmedia https://www.facebook.com/olympics

NOTES TO EDITORS

About the Artist: Leandro Erlich, born 1973, lives and works in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Between 1998 and 1999 he took part in the Core Program, an artist-in-residence program in Houston, , U.S. Then he moved to New York and made his first exhibition in a commercial New York gallery. In the year 2000, he participated in the Whitney Biennale and represented Argentina in the 49th Venice Biennale (2001).

Leandro’s solo exhibitions include: El Museo del Barrio, New York (2001), Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona (2003), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2006), Centre D’art Saint

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Nazaire, France (2005), Albion Gallery, London (2005), P.S.1 MoMA, NY (2008), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2008), Galería Luciana Brito, Sao Paulo (2009), MOLAA, Long Beach (2010), Sean Kelly gallery, NY (2011), Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires (2007, 2012), Galería Nogueras-Blanchard (2013), Barbican Center, London (2013), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2014), MMCA, Seoul, Korea (2014), MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015), ZKM, Germany (2015); Museo Espacio Chandon arteBA 2016 (2016), MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA (2017); Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, España (2017); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2017).

The artists’ work can be found in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; 21st Century Museum of Art Kanazawa, Japan; MACRO, Rome; The Jerusalem Museum; FNAC, France; Ville de Paris et SNCF, Gare du Nord, France; etc.

About the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage: The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage is the IOC’s driving force behind the international promotion and dissemination of Olympism in the fields of culture, heritage and education.

The Foundation’s Heritage Management acquires, documents, preserves and shares Olympic heritage with a wider audience; The is the leading storyteller which showcases the Olympic ideal and legacy of cultural artefacts; the Olympic Studies Centre is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge; and the International Programmes develop and implement special initiatives and programmes on Olympic art, culture and education in collaboration with international partners in the Olympic family and beyond.

About the Olympism in Action Forum: The Olympism in Action Forum is a new initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) focused on building a better world through sport. It will address the most important topics related to sport and society through a constructive dialogue with a diverse group of speakers and guests. The Forum will not only involve Olympic Movement stakeholders, such as private and public-sector leaders, athletes and media, but it will also welcome broader spheres of society with the power to effect change, including NGOs, academics, businesses, artists and more.

Forum sessions and activities will include debates, collaborative workshops, sport demos, inspirational talks, cultural celebrations, networking opportunities and much more. The Forum will take place on 5 and 6 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, alongside the 2018 Youth Olympic Game. For more information: https://www.olympic.org/olympism-in-action/faq.

About the Youth Olympic Games: The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are an elite sporting event for young people from all over the world, held every four years. The YOG aim to bring together the best young athletes aged from 15 to 18. The YOG are an event distinct from other youth sporting events, as they also integrate a unique Athlete Education Programme and Local Youth activities.

The sports programme is based on that of the Olympic Games, with 32 sports featured on the summer programme including exciting new disciplines and formats, such as Kiteboarding, BMX Freestyle, Breaking, 3-on-3 basketball, and mixed gender or mixed National Olympic Committee (NOC) events. Close to the field of play and through a variety of fun and interactive activities, workshops and team- building exercises, the participating athletes and local youth will have the opportunity to learn about the Olympic values, explore other cultures and develop their skills.

The 2018 Youth Olympic Games (Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will welcome a perfectly

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gender balanced world delegation of 4.000 Athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees between October 6 and 18, 2018.

Arts media enquiries:

South America Ella Roeg | Sutton T: +44 (0) 20 7183 3577 E: [email protected] Europe and USA Daria Darmaniyan | Sutton T: +44 (0) 20 7183 3577 E:[email protected]

Other enquiries:

Anja Wodsak Arts & Culture Manager Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage Lausanne, Switzerland T: +41 79 739 6805 E: [email protected]

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Press Release

World’s first Global Active Cities announced

The world’s first Global Active Cities will be announced on Saturday, 29 September, to mark World Heart Day.

The cities – Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hamburg, Germany; Lillehammer, Norway; Liverpool, UK; Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada – have worked hard to offer all their residents the opportunity to choose active and healthy lifestyles and improve their well-being. Each city has embraced a management model that motivates people at risk of inactivity-related illnesses to take up regular physical activity and sport.

In order to receive the Global Active City label, they each had to pass an independent audit with a stringent review of their physical activity and sports strategies and working practices.

Regular physical activity can contribute to reducing the risk of a number of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, as well as a number of mental disorders. The Active Well-being Initiative (AWI), an international NGO responsible for the Global Active City label, works with city leaders to help them provide projects and services that engage local residents who have or are likely to develop these NCDs. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adults do a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate activity each week, and children aged five to 17 should do an hour each day.

Professor David Wood, President of the World Heart Federation, said: “Physical inactivity is a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke. As part of our World Heart Day My Heart, Your Heart campaign, the World Heart Federation is actively encouraging people across the globe to adopt more active lifestyles for their heart health. The Global Active City programme will be an important initiative as we seek to get the world moving and in particular in tackling the barriers to exercise experienced by some city populations and specific sections of society.”

The Global Active City Standard was created with input from more than 70 experts in health, sport and social sciences; legacy and sustainability; tourism; and urban planning and management. “Obesity is a disease that has become a global epidemic,” explained Dr Nathalie Farpour-Lambert, President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) and one of the standard’s medical experts. “Recent WHO data shows that almost 40% of adults and over 41 million children under the age of five are overweight or are living with obesity, and rates are projected to increase further by 2030. We know that obesity is associated with a higher likelihood of developing related chronic diseases like heart disease.

“Childhood is the crucial life phase for obesity prevention and for introducing healthy behaviours around nutrition and physical activity that can last a lifetime. The Global Active City model, promoting cities which have succeeded in increasing participation in physical activity and sport, helps us tackle growing levels of inactivity and non-communicable diseases globally, and supports young people and their families in becoming more active, focusing on community well-being for all in a holistic way.”

The Global Active City programme was founded by Evaleo, a sustainable health association, and TAFISA, The Association For International Sport for All, with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The first cities will receive their awards from the AWI in the presence of IOC President Thomas Bach, at the Olympism In Action Forum in Buenos Aires, as part of the opening events for the Youth Olympic Games. Buenos Aires’ Global Active City strategy – Ciudad Activa – is one of the many legacies of the Games for the local population.

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Christophe Dubi, IOC Olympic Games Executive Director, said: “The mission of the IOC is to ensure the celebration of the Olympic Games, but also to encourage the regular practice of sport by all people in society. The Global Active City programme is crucial in our vision to increase access to sport for all and provide everyone with the educational and health values of sport, with a focus on young people. We encourage all cities, including past and future Olympic cities, to sign up.”

The Active Well-being Initiative recommends that cities which want their populations to be more active should start by identifying key stakeholders and available resources, and partnering with local universities, to find which groups are most at risk from inactivity, and least engaged, and how to reach them.

Doctor Maurice Smith, Clinical Director from NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning group (CCG), said: “The evidence shows that if you can get a population physically active, you will make huge benefits across a range of areas. In Liverpool, we worked out in 2016 that if we got 100% of the city physically active, each year we would prevent 400 deaths, almost 2,500 cases of diabetes, 140 to 150 hospital admissions for coronary heart disease, 50 cases of breast cancer, and 30-40 cases of colorectal cancers. These benefits far exceed anything you could do medically and certainly exceed all the screening procedures that go on.”

To find out more about the Global Active City model, visit activewellbeing.org or follow @AWBInitiative

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For photographs, interviews and city case studies, contact:

Rachel Beacher Communications Manager The Active Well-being Initiative [email protected] +447815155373 activewellbeing.org @AWBInitiative

Upcoming events

5 October The first Global Active Cities will receive their awards from IOC President Thomas Bach at the Olympism in Action Forum, Exhibition and Convention Centre of Buenos Aires (CECBA).

Earlier in the day the forum will host a panel discussion ‘Active Cities & Healthy Societies’ with panelists: - Eleonora Bauer, Director of the Buenos Aires Ciudad Activa Project, Buenos Aires City Government, Argentina - Fiona Bull, Programme Manager, Surveillance & Population Based Prevention, Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases, World Health Organization - Espen Granberg Johnsen, Mayor of Lillehammer, Norway - Maurice Smith, Clinical Director, Living Well, NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, United Kingdom - Facilitator: Bill Morris LVO, International Events Consultant & Ex-Director of Culture, Ceremonies, Education and Live Sites, London 2012, United Kingdom

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5-6 October Olympism Made Visible photography exhibition for delegates of the Olympism In Action Forum, in the foyer of the Exhibition and Convention Centre of Buenos Aires (CECBA). Five themes including Liverpool: Global Active City – Healthy Living For All.

9 October Global Active City Summit, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires. Influential figures driving international health, sports and urban policies will debate the themes surrounding the Global Active City programme.

10 October The City of Buenos Aires will showcase its active city programme at a Ciudad Activa Summit, Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires.

31 October The Active Well-being Initiative will host a Global Active City workshop as part of the Smart Cities & Sport Summit, organised by the World Union of Olympic Cities in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Notes to editors

The Global Active City programme was created to help cities, towns and regions empower their residents to make long term lifestyle changes to be more active in their daily lives – and therefore happier and healthier.

It is not about people who already do physical activity and sport – it is about making physical activity and sport accessible for everyone, especially those at risk of inactivity related diseases – and to help remove the barriers that are preventing them from being active.

Partner cities work towards a model described in the Global Active City Standard, which requires that cities form a strong alliance between different sectors to create and carry out an effective, far- reaching physical activity and sport strategy.

Joining the Global Active City programme enables a city staging or preparing a major sporting tournament to ensure a long-lasting legacy for its local people, placing people’s quality of life at the heart of the project. With this innovative model, social transformation is on par with urban transformation. The focus is on individual and collective well-being and designing and operating cities so they become environments that are conducive to movement and more sustainable living.

The Active Well-being Initiative is in talks with governments in China, Saudia Arabia, Japan, Russia and others, to roll out the programme on a national basis.

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***CAMERA CALL / NEWS OPPORTUNITY**

LARGE-SCALE INTERACTIVE ART INSTALLATION GETS MOVING:

BALL GAME BY ARGENTINE CONCEPTUAL ARTIST LEANDRO ERLICH

COMMISSIONED BY INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE

Date: Sunday 7 October 2018 Time: ca. 8-10am Location: Performative action to occur on Av. Pres. Figueroa Alcorta

(starting at Exhibition and Convention Centre, moving towards Planetarium)

Time: 12pm Location: Installation at Planetarium Galileo Galilei, Av. Sarmiento, Parque Tres de Febrero, CABA

Artist will be in attendance for photographs

To mark the first-ever Olympism in Action Forum and upcoming Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, the International Olympic Committee commissioned internationally celebrated conceptual artist Leandro Erlich to create a large-scale, temporary installation to bring the Olympic values to life.

Known for playing with human perception, Erlich presents Ball Game, an ensemble of five large-scale hyper- realistic sport balls (football, basketball, tennis, volleyball and golf), that will encourage the audience to experience the delight of moving beyond the everyday and into the festive terrain of Erlich’s humour and imagination – and to act in unity in the Olympic spirit.

On Sunday morning, October 7, visitors will be invited to move Erlich’s Ball Game together from the Convention Centre to the the city’s Planetarium Galileo Galilei in the neighbourhood of Palermo in a performative action. Only through a true collective effort can spectators get the monumental balls rolling.

Press Enquiries: Daria Darmaniyan and Ella Roeg | [email protected] / [email protected]

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PRESS

RELEASE

Olympism Made Visible

An international photography project to reveal how sport can serve humankind through community-based activities around the world

Exhibition 001 in Buenos Aires:

Five Photographers, Five Continents, Five Stories of Olympism Put into Action

Where: Buenos Aires Exhibition and Convention Center (CECBA) When: October 5-6 2018 During the Olympism in Action Forum

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Olympism Made Visible

While the Olympic spirit comes to life in the of each edition of the Olympic Games, it also lives well beyond the great sporting event, thanks to the work of global organizations supported by the IOC and independent individuals and programs that share a common goal: to create a better world through sport.

Olympism Made Visible is a long-term international photography project newly initiated by the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) to reveal the Olympic values and their impact when sport is placed at the service of humankind through community- based activities around the world. How does the practice of sport make a difference in people’s lives, from young girls and women in the favelas of , to refugees at a camp in Rwanda, to ordinary citizens in urban centres across the globe? Olympism Made Visible proposes to explore these questions through the creative vision of acclaimed international photographers who work at the intersection of fine art and social documentary.

While building an artistic body of high-quality photography as a powerful and lasting contribution to the legacy and patrimony of the Olympic Movement, OFCH also aims to bring positive recognition to organizations and individuals around the world who put Olympism into action by helping to change people’s lives for the better through sport, in often challenging circumstances.

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Five Photographers, Five Continents, Five Stories of Olympism in Action

In collaboration with the New York City-based photography director and curator, Amy Pereira, OFCH commissioned five artists over the summer of 2018 to work across five different continents on topics relevant to Olympism in Action’s priority areas, from sports for all, to gender equity, to conflict resolution through sport. The photographers’ challenge was to reveal the Olympic values from their distinctive creative perspective and to illuminate Olympism’s definition of sport as the right of all people to practice it, for the joy, excellence, respect and friendship that it creates and fosters. Their work is presented for the first time on the occasion of the Olympism in Action Forum.

The five locations and topics chosen for this first edition of the project were:

AFRICA (Refugee Camps, Rwanda) Protecting Young Refugees Through Sport Photography by Nico Krijno

AMERICAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Fight for Peace & One Win Leads to Another: Coping with crime and violence, resolving conflict peacefully and promoting gender equality through sport Photography by Alexi Majoli

ASIA (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Skateistan: Empowering Youth Through Skateboarding and Education Photography by Lorenzo Vitturi

EUROPE (Liverpool, UK) Global Active City - Healthy Living for All Photography by Vanessa Winship

OCEANIA (Ngerulmud, Palau) The Palau Swimming Association: Increasing Participation in Water-Based Physical Activity in the South Pacific Photography by Max Pinckers

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AFRICA Kigeme, Mugombwa, and Mahama Refugee Camps, Rwanda Protecting Young Refugees Through Sport

Photography by Nico Krijno @nicokrijno

Sports are playing an ever-greater role in the work of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to bring positive value to children’s lives, especially for the growing number of youths living in refugee camps in Rwanda. In 2017, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the IOC launched the Sport for Protection project to enhance the protection of refugee children and youth residing in the six refugee camps in Rwanda through various sport activities. The project aims to ensure their safety and security where they play and interact, avoid negative coping mechanisms, develop their resilience and help them acquiring valuable life skills for their present and future. The project emphasizes seven sport activities; football, basketball, volleyball, , judo, gymnastics and dance.

©IOC – Nico Krijno - 2018

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The sport activities are organized and Sport does many things for young refugees: conducted by refugees in supervision of It’s a form of protection. protection partners; Plan International in A catalyst for community integration. Congolese camps including Kigeme and It brings people together and fosters friendships Mugombwa, and Save the Children in but also to respect one another (and the rules of Mahama camp (for Burundians). the game). It motivates their existence and channels their The group of refugees in charge of the sport thoughts and behaviour towards something activities in each camp is composed of; one positive. sport coordinator and 16 sport trainers. A It gives them back the taste of something they weekly schedule of the activities is lost in their childhood. continuously developed with the It boosts their self-confidence and builds life participation of children and youth as well skills. as other stakeholders in the camps. Sport is a right for all.

For more information, please see http://www.unhcr.org/sport-partnerships.html

©IOC – Nico Krijno - 2018

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AMERICAS Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fight for Peace & One Win Leads to Another: Coping with crime and violence, resolving conflict peacefully and promoting gender equality through sport

Photography by Alexi Majoli @magnumphotos #AlexMajoli During his stay in Rio de Janeiro, Alex Majoli visited two organizations and programmes operating in the favelas. Fight for Peace is an international NGO whose mission is to realise the potential of young people by working together with them to prevent violence in their communities. Fight for Peace uses boxing and martial arts combined with education and personal development to realize the potential of young people in communities affected by crime and violence. The organization was founded in Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, as a direct response to youth- involvement in drug-related crime and violence. http://fightforpeace.net/ ©IOC – Alex Majoli - 2018

One Win Leads to Another is a the IOC and Always. The programme community-based programme committed provides life-skills training to adolescent to building leadership skills and confidence girls (leadership, gender-based violence in adolescent girls through sport, prevention, economic empowerment, implemented in partnership between UN sexual and reproductive health and rights) Women, within a sports context – and creates safe spaces for girls to become more confident and empowered. https://www.olympic.org/news/-one-win- leads-to-another-a-rio-2016-social-legacy- in-the-making

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ASIA Phnom Penh, Cambodia Skateistan: Empowering Youth Through Skateboarding and Education

Photography by Lorenzo Vitturi @lorenzovitturi

Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia and over half of the population is under 25 years old. Issues facing children and youth in Cambodia include limited access to quality education and fair employment, crime, violence, and discrimination, especially towards girls and youth living with disabilities.

Skateistan first began running programs in Phnom Penh in 2011 at a previous Skate School in the city. In February 2018, they relocated to a new Skate School in a location better suited to meet the needs of low-income children. This new Skate School, situated in the creative hub of Factory Phnom Penh (a former garment factory), consists of a 500 square meter ©IOC – Lorenzo Vitturi - 2018 skatepark, a classroom, library, office and large green space. Programs run at the Skate School, at Outreach locations and with partner organizations each week, with a focus on providing opportunities for girls and children living with disabilities.

As well as learning the technical skills involved in skateboarding and their educational classes, children learn important life skills, such as teamwork,

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making friends and taking turns. They build up their own confidence, but they also help to build the confidence of others by encouraging them to take on new challenges in the skate park.

One of Skateistan’s programmes is Skate and Create, which offers weekly skateboarding instruction alongside an educational arts-based curriculum. In the classroom, Skateistan Educators use creative arts to teach a variety of topics, including human rights, cultural studies, nutrition and the environment. Lessons focus on giving youth tools to express themselves, think critically and develop confidence. In the skatepark, students find a valuable platform for self-expression and personal development. Accessible to all levels of literacy and education, Skate and Create provides a safe space for youth to develop friendships that overcome deep social barriers. https://www.skateistan.org/

©IOC – Lorenzo Vitturi - 2018

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EUROPE Liverpool, UK Global Active City: Healthy Living for All

Photography by Vanessa Winship #VanessaWinship

The Active Well-being Initiative (AWI) is a non-governmental organisation that helps cities and organizations to improve the lives of their citizens through the promotion of physical activity, sport and well-being for all. In a world which is facing increasing health problems, the AWI model advocates for more sustainable urban living and calls for new forms of governance. It provides a suite of standards, tools and services, road-tested with a group of pilot cities, and empowers city leaders, their communities and citizens to drive change. Cities are invited to join the movement and see their efforts certified by the Global Active City label. http://activewellbeing.org/

The Liverpool Active City programme was launched in 2005 to boost low levels of ©IOC – Vanessa Winship - 2018 activity and to mobilize partners from diverse professional and economic sectors and civil society to set out towards a different future together. Liverpool is one of the poorest cities in England yet has world class programmes for getting inactive people to make long

term changes to their behaviour.

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For more than 10 years now, the Liverpool has pioneered a progressive physical activity and sport strategy, which has relied heavily on evidence-based academic research to target reluctant, hard-to-reach, inactive groups. It has also pursued innovative, outside-the-box ideas, like putting public gyms in fire stations and a football stadium

By 2021, local leaders aim to have increased activity levels by 30% since 2014. The most recent figures confirm that the number of inactive people is falling. Liverpool is one of the world’s first cities to be awarded Global Active City status. To follow the progress of the Global Active City programme, sign up for the AWI newsletter.

©IOC – Vanessa Winship - 2018

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OCEANIA Ngerulmud, Palau The Palau Swimming Association: Increasing Participation in Water-Based Physical Activity in the South Pacific

Photography by Max Pinckers @maxpinckers

The choice of Palau as a focus area for Olympism Made Visible was inspired by the active role of Mrs. Judy Otto in the community and her nomination from the Palau Women and Sports Commission to the IOC Women and Sports Awards, where Mrs. Otto received the Continental Trophy Winner for 2017 for Oceania. As President of the Palau Swimming Association (PSA),

Ms. Otto has encouraged more of the country’s women to take up the sport, while also enhancing their commitment to health and active living. Her commitment focuses especially on the areas of Sport for all; Health and Well-Being; and Promoting gender equality in sport.

Working hand in hand with the Palau National Olympic Committee (PNOC), PSA sees swimming as an essential life skill.

©IOC – Max Pinckers - 2018

The mission of PSA is to develop the sport of swimming for purposes of health and safety, fitness, recreation and competition within the Republic, regionally and internationally.

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In pursuit of this mission, PSA aims to assist every Palauan resident to master essential swimming skills to ensure safety in and around water and to prepare and field national teams and/or individual representatives for competition at regional and international levels.

One challenge faced by PSA is human resources and lack of a tradition of formal swimming. Palauan of course swim for sustenance (e.g. fishing) but the skills needed for fishing are quite different from those needed for recreational swimming. The pool of adult trainers is relatively small.

A small group of locally based trainers is slowly expanding especially as former national team members join the association to assist with training. As the national team breaks national records and receives local publicity, more parents become aware of swimming and encourage their children to join swimming. Most important has been the support by the Ministry of Education to introduce swimming into the schools.

©IOC – Max Pinckers - 2018

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Nico Krijno He was nominated for the Paul Huf Award

(1981, South Africa) explores 2013. He lives and works in South Africa.

the space between photography and the https://nicokrijno.com/ process of painting, photography and ephemeral sculpture, Krijno is carving an individual path through the current barrage of abstract photographic image making. A prolific artist who combines Alex Majoli two-dimensional works with in-situ is a member of temporary installations, which reference (1971, Italy) Magnum Photos (2001). He documents the the formalism of the wall-based art works. thin line between reality and theatre An inter-textual dialogue opens up exploring the human condition and the between his artworks, and allows for an darker elements of society. He is the often-surprising tone to the assemblage. recipient of the 2016 John Simon Selected solo exhibitions include ‘Under Guggenheim Fellowship and was awarded Construction’, The Ravestijn Gallery, an Infinity Award from the International Amsterdam, NL (2015), ‘New Gestures: Center of Photography in New York in Fabricated to be Photographed’, 2003. Major recent solo exhibitions WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape include, Andante (2018) at the Museo Town, SA (2105), ’On How To Fill Those d'Arte della città di Ravenna (MAR) and Gaps’ (2011) - and the accompanying self SKĒNĒ (2018) at Howard Greenberg published book - was widely lauded and Gallery in New York and exhibitions at Les selected works has since been included in Recontres d’Arles (2015 & 2018). group shows in Edinburgh, Milan, Los Books include Congo (Aperture, 2015) co- Angeles, San-Francisco, Glasgow & authored with Paolo Pellegrin, Libera Me London. (Trolley Books, 2010) and his first

monograph Leros (Trolley Books, 2013) on

the now shuttered asylum

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Contact Photography Festival in , on the island of Leros, Greece. This early and at the CNA in . Vitturi work and interest in psychiatric care led also participated to group exhibitions at him to Brazil which marked the beginning MaXXI in Rome, at Centre Georges of a 20-year, on-going project called ‘Tudo Pompidou in Paris, at La Triennale in Bom’. He is currently working on a project Milan, at the Art Museum and at about the fragmentation and polarization of K11 Art Space in Shanghai, and at BOZAR European identity. He is represented by in Brussels. Following the presentation of Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. ‘Dalston Anatomy’ in as a book, multi- https://www.magnumphotos.com/photogra layered installations and performance pher/alex-majoli/ (SPBH Editions, 2013), Vitturi’s latest photo-book ‘Money Must Be Made’ was published by SPBH Editions in September 2017. http://www.lorenzovitturi.com/

Lorenzo Vitturi Vanessa Winship

is a British (1980, Italy) is a photographer and (1960, England) sculptor based in London. Formerly a photographer who works on long term cinema set painter, Vitturi has brought this projects of portrait, landscape, reportage experience into his photographic practice, and documentary photography. She which revolves around site-specific currently has a major retrospective at the interventions at the intersection of Barbican Centre, London entitled, Vanessa photography, sculpture and performance. Winship: And Time Folds. In 2011, she was

In Vitturi’s process, photography in the first woman to be awarded the conceived as a space of transformation, prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award where different disciplines merge together which funds an artist to pursue a new to represent the complexities of changing photographic project which enabled her to urban environments. Vitturi’s latest solo travel across the United States in pursuit of exhibitions have taken place at Flowers the fabled ‘American dream’

Gallery in London, FOAM Museum in

Amsterdam, The Photographers’ Gallery in London Gallery,

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and resulted in the book, She Dances on Jackson. Max Pinckers She has been exhibited twice in the National (1980, Belgium) is an artist based Portrait Gallery in London and prominently in Brussels, Belgium. His work explores at Les Rencontres d’Arles and has three visual storytelling strategies in documentary highly regarded books. She has also won photography and the relationship between

aesthetics, images and their subjects. His multiple World Press Photo Awards, 'Photographer of the Year' at the Sony World works manifest in the form of self-published Photography Awards. Solo exhibitions artist books and exhibition installations such include, Vanessa Winship at Fundación as The Fourth Wall (2012), Will They Sing MAPFRE, Spain (2014), touring to additional Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty (2014), venues in Spain, France and Italy – Sala de Trophy Camera v0.9 (2017) and Margins of Exposiciones de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain Excess (2018). Pinckers is currently a (2014), Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy doctoral researcher and lecturer in the arts at (2014/15), El Centro Andaluz de La the School of Arts / KASK, Ghent. He has

Fotografia, Almeria, Spain (2015), Espacia de been internationally awarded and has

exhibited at MOCAK in Poland, the las Artes Tenerife Spain (2015), Le Galerie château d’eau, Toulouse, France (2015), and Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United Centro de Arte La Regenta, Gran Canaria , States and the Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar in Spain (2016); Georgia: Seeds Carried by the Belgium, among others. In 2015 he founded Wind, Third Floor Gallery Cardiff, UK the independent publishing house Lyre Press (2013); She Dances on Jackson, Foundation and was recently among the Forbes 30 Under Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France (2013); 30 in the Arts. Current working on Doctoral Sweet Nothings and Black Sea: Between Researcher in the Arts at The Royal Academy Chronicle and Fiction, Side Gallery, of Fine Arts (KASK) and the Royal

Newcastle (2008/09). Conservatory constitute the School of Arts of http://www.vanessawinship.com/projects.ph University College Ghent. p http://www.maxpinckers.be/

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