IOC shuts Olympic committees in switch to smaller expert advisory groups
The International Olympic Committee is shutting down 12 permanent committees focusing on issues like human rights and gender issues, saying it will instead create expert panels when needed. The streamlining and cost-cutting move leaves 19 committees in place. IOC President Kirsty Coventry, who is in her second year in the role, has already relied on appointing smaller working groups for key issues.
A review in March of “protection of the female category” in sports was allocated to an expert panel whose membership was kept confidential rather than the in-house commission for Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. That commission will now be shut down, as will the IOC Advisory Committee on Human Rights.
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