Lausanne (RWH) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed the names of the officials that make up the Evaluation Commission that will analyse the bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. As published by the IOC in Lausanne (SUI), Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov will lead the team working to evaluate the bids from Norway's capital Oslo, the Kazakhstani city of Almaty and China's capital Beijing ahead of the host city election at the IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on July 31 next year.

Zhukov will be joined by New Zealand's Barry Maister, who is vice-president of the Oceania National Olympic Committees and an Olympic hockey gold medallist, British Olympian in skeleton Adam Pengilly, who is representing the IOC Athletes' Commission, and Japanese Olympic Committee President and Tokyo 2020 vice-president Tsunekazu Takeda - all are IOC members.

As advisors of the 2022 Winter Games Evaluation Commission have been named: Canadian Association of National Olympic Committees representative Caroline Assalian, Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations representative Dwight Bell of the United States, International Paralympic Committee representative Rita Van Driel of the Netherlands and Sochi 2014 senior vice-president Tatiana Dobrokhvalova. Dwight Bell is also Board President of the U.S. Luge Federation.