The trip will coincide with CONI's announcement of a 10-man Bid Committee that will preside over Rome's campaign to host the 2024 Games, and will come shortly after tomorrow's opening of a special "invitation phase" with the IOC to begin the 2024 bid process. 

Committee members were set to be named prior to Malagò's meeting with Bach, but, following a CONI Board meeting, he said that they now want to present all of the Committee at the same time.

"We want to involve young people as much as possible," Malagò said.

"In February, we'll inaugurate the headquarters for the Committee."

It was at this Board meeting that the CONI chief announced his meeting with Bach, which will be used to discuss plans for the nation's Olympic bid.

"I saw on Friday (January 9) the Prime Minister and the under-secretary Renzi Delrio," the official added.

"We talked at length about the nomination.

"I will see the Mayor to take stock of the situation after which there is a meeting we have planned next week with the Prime Minister Renzi and the President of IOC, Thomas Bach, in Davos, Switzerland on [January] 21 in the afternoon."

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Italian National Olympic Committee President Giovanni Malagò will meet with Bach in Davos next week to talk about Rome's 2024 Olympic bid ©Getty Images



It is rumoured that Italy's former Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, and ex-Ferrari President Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo, are being considered to lead the Bid Committee, which is expected to grow from 10 to 30 by the time of the host city vote in 2017.

Malagò confirmed the Bid Committee's budget will be between €5 million (£3.87 million/$5.89 million) and €10 million (£7.74 million/$11.78 million).

Rome and Boston are the only two cities to formally put forward a bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games although potential bids are being considered from Berlin or Hamburg in Germany, as well as South Africa, Paris, Budapest, Doha and Baku.

Rome has hosted the Olympics on one previous occasion, in 1960, and is expected to consider venues throughout Italy in a cost-saving bid.

The Italian's capital bid for the 2020 Games was scrapped by former Italian Premier Mario Monti two years ago over concerns about its financial impact on the country.

Current Prime Minister Renzi announced the latest bid proposal last month where he outlined a sustainable and affordable concept "that isn't based on great infrastructures or big dreams but rather great people".

A special invitation phase for the 2024 Olympic bid process will start tomorrow with the IOC keen to provide more consultation with cities in order to generate more popular support.

The final vote will then be taken during the IOC Session in Lima, Peru on September 15, 2017.

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