International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Namibian former sprinter Frankie Fredericks speaks at the second part of the 121st International Olympic Committee session in the Bella Center in Copenhagen, October 8, 2009. REUTERS/Scanpix/Keld Navntoft
BERLIN (Reuters) - Namibian former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks will head the evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 2024 summer Games bids, the IOC said on Wednesday.
Fredericks, an IOC member since 2012 and four-times Olympic silver medallist, will lead the 14-member commission tasked with evaluating the four bids from Los Angeles, Budapest, Rome and Paris ahead of the vote in 2017.
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