107th IOC Session - LA84 Foundation

Volunteers with
language proficiency were
assigned to the Main
Accreditation Centre.
278
Checking accreditation
at the entrance to the
Main Press Centre
Card Issuance
A summary of the accreditation cards issued
for the various Olympic Family groups follows.
• NOCs
Of the 74 NOCs who were entered in the
computer system, 72 NOCs attended the
Games. NAOC based its calculation of the expected
number of team officials on statistics
from the Lillehammer Games. The Chef de
Mission of each NOC was required to attend a
meeting at the Olympic Village before the
delegation arrived to determine the final numbers
and names of participants, submit any
outstanding documents, and sort out access
privileges for officials. There were some
Chefs de Mission who accompanied their delegation
to Nagano without having first attended
a Reception Meeting. In these instances,
the delegations were required to wait in the
lobby of the Olympic Village until details had
been sorted out.
• Guests and Observers
NAOC adopted a flexible approach to accreditation
for all guests, and everything proceeded
smoothly. A new “TOP” category was
created for the chief executives and guests of
Worldwide Partners.
Numerous Observer groups were accredited,
the largest of which was the 229-member delegation
from the Salt Lake Olympic
Organizing Committee (SLOC).
• IFs
The addition of curling, snowboard and
women’s ice hockey events to the Nagano
Games led to an increase in technical officials
accredited in the “J” category in comparison
to the Lillehammer Games. As well, the presidents
and secretaries general of 10 summer
sports IFs attended the Nagano Games.
NAOC complied with requests from five
Federations to issue accreditation for servicemen
(“P” category) providing athlete support,
including 555 servicemen accredited for the
International Skiing Federation (FIS).