13th Olympic Congress to discuss future of Olympic Games.

COPENHAGEN, October 3 (Itar-Tass) -- The 13th Olympic Congress that is
opening in Copenhagen on Saturday will discuss the future of the Olympic
Games.
The 112th session of the International Olympic Committee where Rio de
Janeiro was elected the capital of the Olympic Games 2016 will make a
three-day break for the Olympic Congress that ends on October 5 and then
resume work by October 9.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the opening ceremony.
IOC President Jacque Rogge believes that this reflects the ever more
important place sport occupies in the achievement of the U.N. development
goals.
The Olympic Congress is a unique forum that discusses mainstream
aspects and strategic issues concerning the development of the Olympic
movement. It is held on a regular basis every 10-15 years on the
initiative of the IOC president. The first congress, where the Olympic
Games were resumed and the IOC was established, took place in Paris in
1894, and the latest one in Paris in 1994.
About 900 delegates will meet in Copenhagen to discuss key topics,
such as athletes, Olympic Games, the structure of the Olympic movement,
Olympism and young people, and a digital revolution.
"The Olympic Congress is a forum for the broadest sport community and
involves members of the IOC and national Olympic committees, international
sport federations and sport ministries, scientists and businessmen,
doctors and journalists. Its proposals are advisory but have a big
strategic impact on the sport movement," IOC member for Russia Vasily
Smirnov told Itar-Tass.
The participants in the congress are expected to sign a framework
agreement on cooperation between the Russian and the U.S. Olympic
Committees.
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