https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The race to host the 2024 Olympic Games gets underway in earnest on Wednesday with the four bid cities — Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome — presenting their initial candidature files to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). https://www.thelocal.ch/20160217/four-cities-present-bids-for-2024-olympics Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:01:04 +0100 four-cities-present-bids-for-2024-olympics The first stone of the future new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne was laid on Tuesday, along with five time capsules to be opened in 100 years. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151209/first-stone-laid-for-future-olympic-headquarters Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:35:00 +0100 first-stone-laid-for-future-olympic-headquarters The Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee said on Monday that Hamburg's referendum rejecting its bidding for the 2024 Olympics is a "lost" opportunity for Germany. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151130/hmaburg-no-vote-lost-opportunity-for-germany-ioc Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:35:03 +0100 hmaburg-no-vote-lost-opportunity-for-germany-ioc The Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee announced on Monday that it had handed all broadcast rights in most of Europe to Eurosport, owned by Discovery Communications, for the four Olympic games between 2018 and 2024. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150629/eurosport-gains-tv-rights-for-four-olympics Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:11:54 +0200 eurosport-gains-tv-rights-for-four-olympics Scandal-plagued Fifa needs "painful" but necessary reform, Thomas Bach, president of the Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee, said on Monday https://www.thelocal.ch/20150608/olympic-chief-calls-for-painful-fifa-reforms Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:37:15 +0200 olympic-chief-calls-for-painful-fifa-reforms Outgoing Fifa president and International Olympic Committee member Sepp Blatter will not attend next week's IOC meeting in Lausanne, world football's governing body announced on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150605/fifas-blatter-to-skip-ioc-meeting Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:40:04 +0200 fifas-blatter-to-skip-ioc-meeting Five cities - Boston, Hamburg, Rome, Paris and Budapest - are "interested" in hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, the executive director of the Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee says. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150506/five-cities-interested-in-hosting-2024-games Wed, 06 May 2015 13:40:06 +0200 five-cities-interested-in-hosting-2024-games Beijing leaders on Tuesday handed over their official bid to stage the 2022 Winter Olympics to the Swiss-based IOC, heightening their battle with Kazakhstan's Almaty. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150106/beijing-bids-for-2022-winter-olympics Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:29:00 +0100 beijing-bids-for-2022-winter-olympics The Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee is planning to build a new headquarters budgeted at 160 million francs to bring together employees currently working in different offices. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141210/ioc-unveils-futuristic-plans-for-new-home Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:40:00 +0100 ioc-unveils-futuristic-plans-for-new-home Beijing, Oslo and Almaty will contest the race to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140707/three-cities-vie-for-2022-winter-olympics Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:04:00 +0200 three-cities-vie-for-2022-winter-olympics The International Olympic Committee said Wednesday it had disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's 2000 bronze medal in its possession, 10 months after demanding that he give it back. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131002/ioc-receives-armstrongs-tarnished-bronze-medal Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:42:00 +0200 ioc-receives-armstrongs-tarnished-bronze-medal The Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee on Tuesday elected Thomas Bach, a German lawyer and former fencing champion, as its new president. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130910/german-lawyer-overcomes-critics-to-head-ioc Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:54:00 +0200 german-lawyer-overcomes-critics-to-head-ioc Buenos Aires won the right to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games after a vote by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130704/buenos-aires-picked-to-host-2018-youth-olympics Thu, 04 Jul 2013 21:53:00 +0200 buenos-aires-picked-to-host-2018-youth-olympics Electioneering fever is hitting Lausanne this week as the three cities bidding for the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and the six men vying to succeed Jacqes Rogge as International Olympic Committee president make presentations to IOC members. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130702/ioc-candidates-campaign-in-lausanne Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:38:00 +0200 ioc-candidates-campaign-in-lausanne Puerto Rican banker Richard Carrion added his name on Wednesday to the list of candidates vying to take over as head of the Olympic movement. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130522/puerto-rican-banker-vies-for-top-ioc-job Wed, 22 May 2013 20:51:00 +0200 puerto-rican-banker-vies-for-top-ioc-job Wrestling, an Olympic sport since the first Games in ancient Greece, looks set to be dropped after the Lausanne-based International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted to remove it from the programme for 2020. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130212/ioc-votes-to-drop-wrestling-from-olympics Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:25:00 +0100 ioc-votes-to-drop-wrestling-from-olympics A fresh analysis by a Lausanne anti-doping lab has led the International Olympic Committee to strip four athletes of their medals from the 2004 Olympic Games. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121205/lausanne-lab-leads-ioc-to-strip-medals Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:11:00 +0100 lausanne-lab-leads-ioc-to-strip-medals The International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland were partially flooded Sunday after an old water pipe burst, damaging archives and knocking out communications, the organization said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121111/burst-pipe-causes-olympic-office-flood Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:53:00 +0100 burst-pipe-causes-olympic-office-flood