The Olympic Programme Working Group was a new working group formed by new IOC President Kirsty Coventry in September 2025. The initial chair of the working group was Austrian Karl Stoss, who also was the head of the Olympic Programme Commission.
The charge of the Olympic Programme Working Group was “to find a balance between the size of the Games, the relevance of the sports and disciplines, the integration of new sports and disciplines, and, potentially, identifying ways for sports to be added to or removed from the programme through a clear and transparent process. It will also consider the suggestion that traditional summer or winter sports could cross over, the timing of the Games, and the sports calendar.”
