Ms Sarah O'Shea:

The contract is with the local organising committee and the ticket seller. The national Olympic committee has to provide an acknowledgement signature but it cannot deal with the contractual arrangement. It just has to acknowledge the contract has been signed but the local organising committee has the rights in regard to how it deals with that contract.

I do not have the full details either of the relationship between the local organising committee and the IOC, but I think, because it is dealing with different countries, it has different arrangements, depending on the country and the different laws involved. The same practice that happened in PyeongChang cancelling a contract would not necessarily happen in Tokyo or some other place. It would depend on the local legislation in place and how it dealt with authorised ticket resellers, ATRs, and ticketing arrangements.