BOBICO Officials Left for Lausanne

On the invitation of IOC, Liu Qi, Mayor of Beijing and chairman of BOBICO left Beijing for Lausanne, Switzerland, May 17, to attend the joint conference of the executive board committee of IOC and the sports federation of individual events. Part of the BOBICO members have already been there in advance.

On May 15, IOC announced the evaluation reports on the five candidate cities. Later, a press conference was held by BOBIC in Lausanne, at which Liu Jingmin, vice chairman and Wang Wei secretary-general and Deng Yaping, representative of sportsmen were present and answered questions from the media.

As reported, the other four bidding cities will also attend this joint conference.



By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili


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