The OTI, representing the region’s free-to-air broadcasters, said this week that it “did not consider the negotiations closed”. OTI general secretary, Miguel Diez de Urdanivia, told TV Sports Markets that “We are very happy to continue contributing to the Olympic Movement in our region”.
But sources close to the IOC said that the Olympic body was now looking at alternatives and discussions are already under way with individual OTI member broadcasters and others. The IOC’s relationship with the OTI stretches back to the Montreal Games in 1976.
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