John Coates Becomes Chairman of Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020 Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced today that IOC Vice-President John Coates will be the Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Frank Fredericks was also elected as Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires for 2018.

Coates and Fredericks will lead two experienced teams of commission members, drug also named today, anabolics who will be responsible for assisting their respective local Organising Committees as they prepare for their editions of the Games. The members of the Coordination Commissions represent the stakeholders of the Olympic Movement, including the athletes, the National Olympic Committees, International Sports Federations, and the International Paralympic Committee, and act as a link between them, the Organising Committees and other Olympic Movement stakeholders, thereby ensuring the coordination necessary to help deliver successful editions of the Games.

IOC President Thomas Bach also decided that Arne Ljungqvist, Gerhard Heiberg and Hein Verbruggen will continue in their roles as chairmen of the Medical Commission, Marketing Commission and OBS, respectively, until after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games to ensure continuity in the preparations. The terms of all three had been set to expire after the IOC Session in Buenos Aires. 

The members of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 are as follows:

Chairman
John COATES

Vice-Chair
Alex GILADY

Members (in alphabetical order)
Sebastian COE (ANOC)
Mikaela COJUANGCO-JAWORSKI
Kirsty COVENTRY (Athletes’ Commission)
Anita DEFRANTZ
Guy DRUT
Habu GUMEL
Nicole HOEVERTSZ
Robin MITCHELL
Lydia NSEKERA
Andrew PARSONS (IPC)
Irena SZEWINSKA
Marius VIZER (ASOIF)
Zaiqing YU

The members of the Coordination Commission for the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires 2018 are as follows:

Chairman
Frank FREDERICKS

Members (in alphabetical order)
Danka BARTEKOVA (Athletes’ Commission)
Lingwei LI
Barry MAISTER
Henry NÚÑEZ (ANOC)
Adham SHARARA (ASOIF)