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The 97th International Olympic Committee Session , officially known as the XCVII Session of the IOC , was held from 12–16 June 1991 at the International Convention Centre in Bir...

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The 97th International Olympic Committee Session, officially known as the XCVII Session of the IOC, was held from 12–16 June 1991 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England, in the United Kingdom. At the session, Nagano, Japan, was selected as the host city of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Events

The host of the 97th IOC Session was chosen during the 92nd IOC Session in Istanbul, Turkey, on 12 May 1987.[1] The city was chosen over bids from Belgrade, Budapest, Monte Carlo, Moscow, Nairobi, and Riyadh.[2][3] Birmingham prevailed in the final round by one vote over Budapest, the runner-up, after a delegate accidentally voted for Moscow, which had been eliminated in a previous round, instead of Budapest as they intended. Birmingham bid for the session the year after an unsuccessful bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the hope of maintaining the city's connections with IOC members to bolster a potential bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics.[4] This was ultimately unsuccessful, as in 1988 the British Olympic Association chose Manchester as the British bidding city for the 1996 Games over Birmingham.[5]

The conference was held at Birmingham's newly built International Convention Centre. The opening of the session coincided with the grand opening of the complex on 12 June. Queen Elizabeth II was present to inaugurate both, as was Anne, Princess Royal, then the president of the British Olympic Association. IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch spoke at the opening, urging action against doping in sport.[6][7][8] 35 minutes of the opening session were broadcast nationally on BBC Two.[9][10]

During the conference, IOC members provisionally agreed to allow South Africa to be reinstated into the Olympic movement, the country having been expelled from the IOC in 1970 due to its policies of apartheid. After the Population Registration Act, 1950 was repealed later that month, the Interim National Olympic Committee of South Africa was admitted to the IOC on 9 July, and the country was permitted to compete at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[11][12] Delegates also agreed to remove the men's team modern pentathlon from the Olympic schedule after 1992.[11][13]Budapest was selected as the site for the 103rd IOC Session, at which the host of the 2002 Winter Olympics would be chosen in 1995.[14]

New IOC members inducted at the session included Jacques Rogge and Thomas Bach, both future presidents of the International Olympic Committee.[12]

1998 host city vote

The host city of the 1998 Winter Olympics was chosen during the session on 15 June 1991.[15] It was later revealed that the Nagano Olympic bid committee had spent approximately $14 million on entertaining the 62 IOC members and many of their companions. The precise figures are not known since Nagano destroyed the financial records after the IOC asked that the entertainment expenditures not be made public.[16] In 2006, a report ordered by the Nagano region's governor said the Japanese city provided millions of dollars in an "illegitimate and excessive level of hospitality" to IOC members, including US$4.4 million spent on entertainment alone.[17]

See also

References

  1. ↑Swain, Martin. "Olympic dreams still high", Birmingham Evening Mail, 12 May 1987, back page.
  2. ↑"Olympic cheer for Birmingham", The Northern Echo, 13 May 1987, page 16.
  3. ↑"Decisions of the 92nd IOC Session", Olympic Review, May–June 1987, pages 241–242.
  4. ↑ Parkin, Phil. "Los Juegos reciben un impulso desde Rusia con amor" , Birmingham Metronews , 13 de mayo de 1987, portada.
  5. ↑ "Se entrega el expediente de tácticas sucias" , Birmingham Sunday Mercury , 22 de mayo de 1988, página 7.
  6. ↑ Gravil, Denise y Kevin Palmer. "Pompa y pompa: el homenaje de la Reina al 'espléndido' ICC" , Birmingham Metronews , 13 de junio de 1991, portada y página 3 .
  7. ↑ Rees, Judy. "¡En la cima del mundo!" , Birmingham Evening Mail , 13 de junio de 1991, página 35.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Stephen. "Samaranch: El COI debe intensificar la guerra contra el dopaje" , Associated Press , vía Hanford Sentinel , 12 de junio de 1991, página 10.
  9. ↑ Hickman, Leon y Stanley Sparks. "Diputados critican duramente el desaire televisivo a un día real" , Birmingham Evening Mail , 14 de junio de 1991, página 2.
  10. ↑ "The Olympic Vote" , programación de BBC Two England para el miércoles 12 de junio de 1991, BBC Genome Project , archivado por WayBack Machine el 19 de octubre de 2014.
  11. 1 2 Palmer, Kevin. "Sudáfrica se acerca a su regreso al redil olímpico" , Birmingham Metronews , 14 de junio de 1991, página 7.
  12. 1 2 Owen, David. "Por qué ser sede de los Juegos de la Commonwealth no es el mayor mérito de Birmingham para alcanzar la fama deportiva internacional" , Inside the Games , 26 de julio de 2022, Web.
  13. ↑ "El COI invita a Sudáfrica a regresar a los Juegos; el COI reconsidera los cambios" , Associated Press , vía The Sault Star , 14 de junio de 1991, página A14.
  14. ↑ "Decisiones de la 97.ª Sesión" , Olympic Review , julio de 1991, páginas 314-319.
  15. 1 2 "Resultados de elecciones anteriores de ciudades sede de los Juegos Olímpicos" . GamesBids . Archivado del original el 24 de enero de 2011. Recuperado el 17 de marzo de 2011 .
  16. ↑ Jordan, Mary; Sullivan, Kevin (21 de enero de 1999), "Documentos quemados en Nagano que rastrean la candidatura olímpica del 98" , Washington Post , pág. A1 , consultado el 20 de agosto de 2016. 
  17. ↑Roche, Lisa Riley (9 January 2006). "Report assails Nagano over bid". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008 – via FindArticles.