Digital Desk: Following a successful bid at the 139th IOC session held in Beijing on the backdrop of the Winter Olympics on Saturday, India will host the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session 2023 in Mumbai.
This win is historic because India hasn't hosted an IOC session in 40 years since New Delhi in 1983. The event will occur at the newly state-of-the-art Jio World Convention Center.
In the Beijing session, Mumbai received a record-breaking 99 percent of the votes in favor of its bid from the delegates who took part in the process, with 75 members approving its candidacy.
The yearly meeting of the associates of the IOC, which consists of 101 voting associates and 45 honorary fellows, is comprehended as an IOC session.
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It discusses and makes determinations on essential aspects of the worldwide Olympic movement, such as the approval or change of the Olympic Charter, the election of IOC members and office bearers, and the selection of the Olympic host city.
The Indian delegation had the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Narinder Batra, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, and Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medalist.
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