The International Olympic Committee is set to approve a wide-ranging reform programme initiated by new president Kirsty Coventry, who has had a not always easy first year on the job.

The IOC will meet for an extraordinary session on Wednesday and Thursday with the programme Fit for the Future (F4F) top of the agenda.

Coventry wants to end the Olympics’ expansion and instead come up with a more sustainable format for the future, with the two-day session at the IOC’s Swiss headquarters in Lausanne to lay the foundations.

Naming the Games “our biggest asset”, Coventry has said that they “can’t continue growing indefinitely, bigger, bigger, bigger” and that the reform process would include some “uncomfortable” measures.

Disciplines instead of sports

A main part of the F4F agenda is a shift from evaluating the Olympic programme by sports to a future format by discipline.