128th IOC Session

The 128th IOC Session will take place from July 30-August 3,^[1] 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.^{[2] [3]} The host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics will be elected during the 128th IOC Session on July 31, 2015.^[4][5][6]

Bidders

Exterior of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Lima, Peru placed bids to host the 128th IOC Session. Kuala Lumpur bid to host the 125th IOC Session which took place in 2013, but they lost out to Buenos Aires.^[7] Lima's bid to host the IOC Session was ruled out by the evaluation report which resulted in Kuala Lumpur becoming the host city.^[8]

2022 Winter Olympic Games host city election

The host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics will be elected during the 128th IOC Session. Bids for the games were due to the IOC in 2013. In 2014, the IOC decided that Almaty and Beijing (as Oslo withdrew its bid), would become candidate cities, a year before the host city is elected. ^[9]

2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games host city election

The host city of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics will also be chosen during the same IOC session. The two candidate cities, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brașov, Romania, were shortlisted in early December.^[10]

See also

• 125th IOC Session
• 123rd IOC Session

References