At the press conference, President Bach said: “Both cities have really embraced Olympic Agenda 2020 in different ways but particularly in the way they are planning to use a record number of existing and temporary facilities. This is something we have not seen in this dimension before in the Olympic Games and this will lead to significant cost reductions in the organisation of the Olympic Games and will make the Games more sustainable and more feasible.”

On the future candidature process from the Olympic Winter Games 2026 onwards the IOC Executive Board decided to address the specific challenges of the current candidature process. President Bach said:

“We have also challenges. We have discussed this with regards to the Olympic Winter Games 2026.  In principle, there are two reasons why the Executive Board thinks a change is necessary: one external, one internal. Firstly, the change in the decision-making procedure in many western countries. Today if the establishment is united behind one project, people now say there must be something wrong. We could complain about this change in attitude but we cannot ignore it. Even less so, because we are giving some arguments for this scepticism. To put it in a nutshell, the candidature procedure in this world we are living in has become too expensive and too onerous for potential candidate cities and in this way it is producing too many losers.”

 “The IOC will customize its approach to the needs of the cities in order to develop together the best value proposition for the cities and for the Games.  All this will lead to a lighter process for the cities with reduced costs”./.(olympic.org)