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Following the unanimous approval of Olympic Agenda 2020 in December 2014, the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) had a section devoted to the implementation of the 40 recommendations. Reports were delivered on the bid process, sports programme and host city proposal, turnkey solutions, roles of the International Federations (IFs), support to athletes, preparations for the launch of the Olympic Channel, ethics, changes to the IOC commissions, and changes to the Olympic Charter. IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi and IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell provided a detailed report on the implementation of the first three recommendations of Olympic Agenda 2020 – shaping the bidding process as an invitation, evaluating bid cities by assessing key opportunities and risks, and reducing the cost of bidding.Another significant development was the election of the IOC Ethics Commission members, finalising the successful implementation of recommendations 30-32 of Olympic Agenda 2020, which also included a complete revision of the IOC Code of Ethics. Youssoupha Ndiaye (former Minister of Sport of Senegal) was re-elected as Chair of the Commission and Guy Canivet (member of the Constitutional Court of France) was elected as Vice-Chair. Senegal Olympic Committee President Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye and United World Wrestling (UWW) President Nenad Lalovic were elected as new Members of the IOC (pictured left). Ndiaye has led the NOC since 2006 and is the first IOC Member in Senegal since Lamine Diack. Lalovic, meanwhile, has overseen many significant reforms to wrestling since becoming UWW President in 2013.All 28 summer International Federations (IFs) have signed up to the IOC’s Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) ahead of schedule. They join all the winter IFs as members of this monitoring platform.The IOC introduced the IBIS monitoring system in January 2014. The objective was to integrate all of the winter IFs ahead of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi last year and all the summer IFs before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next year.IOC President Thomas Bach said: “The IOC’s ultimate goal is to protect clean athletes and IBIS is one tool to support us in this endeavour. This monitoring system helps to fight illegal betting, match-fixing and related corruption in sport, all of which threaten the credibility and integrity of sport. It is fantastic news that, after such a short period since its inception, we have all IFs fully on board, highlighting yet again their commitment to the reforms of Olympic Agenda 2020.”An intelligence-sharing digital platform, IBIS collates alerts and information on manipulation through betting across sports, event owners and the major sports betting entities. It ensures the monitoring of all Olympic sports, their main international competitions and, of course, the Olympic Games. IBIS was successfully implemented for the first time during the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 with all Olympic winter IFs taking part in the project.The IOC has announced the awarding of broadcast rights in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and 22 countries in Asia for the Olympic Games in the 2018–2024 period. In Europe, all TV and multi-platform broadcast rights for these Games have been awarded to Discovery Communications, the parent company of Eurosport.Discovery acquired the exclusive rights, valued at EUR 1.3 billion, across all platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription/pay-TV television, internet and mobile phones in all languages across 50 countries and territories on the European continent. Consistent with IOC and local market requirements, Discovery has committed to broadcasting a minimum of 200 hours of the Olympic Games and 100 hours of the Olympic Winter Games on free-to-air television during the Games period.The exclusive broadcast rights in 22 countries in Asia were awarded to Dentsu Inc. Dentsu will continue as the exclusive gatekeeper for broadcast rights in all languages and across all media platforms in Afghanistan, Brunei, Cambodia, Chinese Taipei, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.The exclusive broadcast rights in the Middle East and North Africa, across all broadcast platforms, were awarded to the beIN MEDIA GROUP (beIN SPORTS). The agreement also includes the right to broadcast all editions of the Youth Olympic Games until 2024.OLYMPIC REVIEW 13