[2] The purpose of the Commission then expanded to include general issues of interest to the NOCs, the IFs, and the IOC.
[1] This was a response to complaints from the NOCS and the IFs that they had little say in the Olympic Movement and no official process to voice their opinions.
[1] The chair of the Tripartite Commission was the IOC president, initially Lord Killanin and later Juan Antonio Samaranch.
[3] The modern Tripartite Commission is a three-way collaboration between the IOC, the Association of National Olympic Committees, and the IFs (through the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations or Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations) that ensures participation by athletes from NOCs who would, through normal qualification channels, have little or no representation at the Games.
[7] In order to be eligible for a Tripartite Commission invitation, a given NOC has to have an average of no more than 8 athletes in individual sports over the previous two Games.