128th IOC Session

[4][5][6] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Lima, Peru placed bids to host the 128th IOC Session.

Kuala Lumpur bid to host the 125th IOC Session which took place in 2013, but they lost out to Buenos Aires.

[9] The host city of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics was also chosen during the same IOC session.

The two candidate cities, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brașov, Romania, were shortlisted in early December.

[12] The IOC approved South Sudan's inclusion as a full member of the Committee, allowed the country to participate in Rio 2016 under its national flag.