FILE PHOTO: FIFA President Gianni Infantino greets the audience as he attends a news conference at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
(Reuters) - FIFA's proposals for a shift to a biennial World Cup, which could see the tournament held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, have been given a cold response from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.
Bach declined to state whether his organisation had been part of the consultation being carried out by FIFA, whose president Gianni Infantino is a member of the IOC.
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