London 2012: British and American Olympic Associations team up

Bystaff and agencies Published: 6:50PM GMT 04 March 2010

Special relationship: Lord Moynihan described the BOA"s agreement with the American Olympic Association as "groundbreaking" Photo: PA

The common agreement was sealed this week in San Francisco by BOA authority Lord Moynihan and United States Olympic Committee authority Larry Probst carrying been finalised during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

One of the key points of the deal, voiced by both inhabitant Olympic committees on Thursday, will see the BOA and USOC take stairs to relaunch a British ruling physique for skiing and snowboarding in the arise of the fall of Snowsport GB, that went in to administration department a week prior to the Vancouver Games.

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Other areas of co-operation will be the co-ordination of issues of mutual seductiveness in formulation for London 2012 and a joining to assistance determined Olympic athletes and rise the wider Olympic movement.

"This is a groundbreaking agreement in in in between dual inhabitant Olympic committees with a common joining to await the expansion of the Olympic Movement not usually in the own countries, but worldwide," pronounced Moynihan.

"Relations in in in between the BOA and USOC have regularly been close, but with this agreement ... we come in a new epoch of trust, apply oneself and collaboration.

"In only over dual years, we will acquire the universe to London for the 2012 Olympic Games, and right away is the undiluted time to make firm long-standing friendships and rise new ones."

Concerning winter sports, the common agreement calls for the BOA and USOC to "explore partnership opportunities in in in between British Ski and Snowboarding and the United States Ski and Snowboard Association to await in the investiture of British Ski and Snowboarding as a indication inhabitant ruling body".

It additionally commits them to "explore areas of co-operation in winter sports in credentials for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, quite in sports governed by the Federation Internationale de Ski.

"Specific opportunities will embody coaching and technical exchanges, winter competition precision camps and alternative high opening programmes."

Moynihan added: "For the BOA, this agreement additionally represents an useful event to yield an one more pathway of vicious await for the winter competition athletes and, in particular, those athletes influenced by the new fall of the former inhabitant ruling physique for ski and snowboard competition in the UK."

Concerning London 2012, a corner matter released currently pronounced the agreement committed the dual bodies to "jointly settle a association to take place in 2011 in London to rise and share report on most appropriate practices in inhabitant ruling physique leadership".

The BOA and USOC will additionally work together to rise girl and preparation programmes for competition and recreation.