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This week at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, the seven Applicant Cities for the 2016 Olympic Games – Baku (Azerbaijan), Chicago (USA), Doha (Qatar), Madrid (Spain), Prague (Czech Republic), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Tokyo (Japan)* – are all attending the 2016 Applicant Cities’ Seminar.

Pat Hickey European and OCI President hosted a workshop for Olympic Council of Ireland sponsors in Howth on Tuesday 25th September.

The 10 candidate cities for the first ever Summer Youth Olympic Games to be held in 2010 met over the last two days in Lausanne. IOC President Jacques Rogge welcomed them and expressed his satisfaction that the high number of candidate cities was “an expression of the enthusiasm with which the whole Olympic Family has responded to the IOC’s initiative to create the Youth Olympic Games on 5 July 2007”.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) today officially appointed the Marcus Evans Group as its official ticketing agency for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced that seven cities have been put forward by their respective National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to apply to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016.

An IOC group, led by Hein Verbruggen – the Chairman of the IOC’s Coordination Commission for the Beijing Games, has just completed two-and-a-half weeks of observations of the Good Luck Beijing Sports Events in order to gauge the state of planning and preparations ahead of next year’s Games.

Patrick Hickey, President European Olympic Committee will attend the 119th IOC Session in Guatemala City from the 4-7th July 2007. The main decision to be taken by the IOC members will be the election of the Host City for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014.

President of the Olympic Council of Ireland Dr Pat Hickey; Chef de Mission, Dermot Henihan; Deputy Chef de Mission Tom Rafter; and CEO Dr Stephen Martin held the first of a number of OCI Media Briefings ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at Olympic House,Howth.

Ireland's Olympic hopefuls for next year's Beijing Games will benefit from a new partnership arrangement agreed between Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Olympic Council of Ireland.

The IOC has launched the bid process for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016. The 203 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have been invited to submit the name of a city within their jurisdiction as an Applicant to host the Games in nine years’ time.

Sean Kelly, Executive Chairman of the Irish Institute of Sport, announced today (May 15, 2007) that Phil Moore has been appointed Director of Athlete Services at the Institute.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), led by President Patrick Hickey, will hold its monthly Executive Board meeting in Derry on Wednesday 30th May, the first time it has held such a meeting in Northern Ireland as the city tries to market itself as a training venue for 2012.