OLYMPICS-WINTER/BACH-ARRIVAL IOC president arrives in Malaysia for election of Winter Games host

Record ID: 146371

  • Title: OLYMPICS-WINTER/BACH-ARRIVAL IOC president arrives in Malaysia for election of Winter Games host
  • Date: 24th July 2015
  • Summary: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (JULY 24, 2015) (REUTERS) MAN ARRANGING BANNER AT AIRPORT BANNER READING (English): "INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE"
  • Embargoed: 8th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Malaysia
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Friday (July 24) arrived in Kuala Lumpur ahead of the 128th executive board meeting.
    On the agenda are the elections for a host of the 2022 Winter Games and the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games.
    Bach was welcomed by Malaysia Olympic Council President Tunku Imran Tunku Ja'afar at the airport.
    "With a important decision to be taken, one year to go for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the elections for the host of the Winter Games in '22 and the Youth Games in '20, so it will be a good agenda and I think we will feel very well, with all the hospitality of the Malaysian people," Bach said.
    Activists have called on the IOC not to award the 2022 winter Games to Beijing saying China's human rights record had worsened since the 2008 Olympics in the Chinese capital.
    The Chinese capital and Kazakhstan's Almaty are the only bidders for the Winter Olympics in seven years' time.
    Should Beijing win it would be the first city to have been awarded both Summer and Winter Olympics.
    The IOC has said it is not a political organisation that can interfere in domestic matters of a sovereign state but has insisted the Games are a force for good.
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