IOC to Consider New Timetable for Summer, Winter Games

The International Olympic Committee’s executive board will recommend changing the timing of the Olympics so that the Summer Games will be held in alternating even-numbered years with the Winter Games.

Under the proposal, the Summer Games and the Winter Games would be held two years apart. Officials said the change would ease the financial burden for national Olympic committees, which now must fund both events in the same year.

The board’s recommendation will go before the full membership at this week’s IOC session in Lausanne, Switzerland, and, if passed, the change could be introduced with the holding of the Winter Olympics in 1994 and the Summer Games in 1996.