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Credibility and good governance

Through the Olympic Agenda, the IOC has completely overhauled its governance processes and has strengthened the protection of clean athletes.

  • The IOC has chosen voluntarily to comply with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) even though it is under no legal obligation to do so.

  • The IOC contributes 50 per cent of all funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which equated to around USD 20 million in 2024. This is the same amount as all the governments of the world together, who contribute the other 50 per cent of WADA’s funding.

  • In order to support research and investigation and intelligence work of WADA, the IOC invested USD 15 million overall as part of Olympic Agenda 2020.

  • The IOC founded and financed the start of the International Testing Agency (ITA) in order to make anti-doping independent from the IOC and sports organisations. To date, more than 60 sports organisations have delegated their anti-doping programmes to the ITA, and some 40 National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) have established a partnership with the ITA.

  • The IOC launched the long-term storage and reanalysis of samples programme at the Olympic Games Athens 2004. To support the uptake of similar programmes across IFs and NADOs, the IOC funded the creation of a centralised storage facility with USD 5 million managed by the ITA, and which covered the storage of pre-Games samples collected by anti-doping organisations ahead of Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022.

  • The IOC has funded the Pre-Games Testing programme since 2016 as part of efforts to reduce testing gaps. In the lead-up to Paris 2024, 90 per cent of potential Olympians were tested at least once in the six months prior to the event, a 5 per cent increase in comparison to Tokyo 2020.

  • The IOC has allocated a fund of USD 10 million per Olympiad to continue to support work on the prevention of competition manipulation. The IOC continues to collaborate with INTERPOL, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Council of Europe in this area.

  • The IOC continues to support the implementation of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (Macolin Convention), the only legally binding piece of international legislation aimed at preventing the manipulation of competitions. The IOC has Observer status with the Convention’s Follow-Up Committee.

  • The IOC co-created the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport (IPACS), a multistakeholder platform bringing together sports organisations, governments, inter-governmental organisations and other stakeholders to strengthen and support efforts to eliminate corruption and promote good governance in and around sport.

What they have said

“Support for integrity in sport and efforts to reduce the prevalence of threats to the IOC’s credibility are a unique responsibility that the IOC undertakes to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.” – HE Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Chair of the IOC Ethics Commission, former UN Secretary-General

“At the start of his term of office, President Thomas Bach announced that he wanted to give clean athletes stronger protection. He wrote that aim into Olympic Agenda 2020, but above all, he kept his promise with the creation of the International Testing Agency. … Today, more than 60 International Federations, like the IOC and other international sports organisers, have delegated their programme to the ITA and have shown the way forward for public authorities and for other stakeholders that haven’t yet delegated their programme to an independent, specialised and transparent agency in order to serve their athletes.” – Valérie Fourneyron, Chair of the ITA Board.

“With the Olympic Agenda, President Bach emphasised the importance of clean sport which helped advance anti-doping standards - particularly in the area of intelligence and investigations - and secured additional funding for scientific research that is identifying new doping trends, drugs, delivery mechanisms, methods and ways to improve detection. In short, the Olympic Agenda helped focus us on aiming higher and taking action together for the benefit of athletes worldwide.” – Witold Bańka, WADA President

Olympic Agenda reforms highlights

Olympic Agenda Highlights

IOC Members meeting at the 144th Session in Greece celebrated the achievements of Olympic Agenda. In a series of presentations, the highlights of the Olympic Agenda reforms and their impacts on the IOC and the wider Olympic Movement were outlined. They included a 30-minute film showcasing the achievements of the reforms with powerful testimonials from individuals, personalities and organisations, all of whom have been positively impacted.