Abstract

This report outlines the strategic intelligence activities conducted by the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC). Furthermore it summarizes the activities carried out by support teams based at the Olympic venue and back up teams in Japan during the 20th Olympic Winter Games, Torino 2006. The role of the JOC Strategic Intelligence Department at the Games was to collect information such as efforts of Japanese athletes, trends of other countries, the change and stream of the Games themselves, and to offer the information and infrastructure for information to the Japanese delegation during the Games.
The first half of the paper is about the three reports compiled by the Japanese backup team “Tokyo-J Project 2006/TORINO”. These reports were based on various information/data of domestic and international sports movement. These reports are expected to be of great use to realize the JOC GOLD PLAN hereafter.
The second half of the paper is about the publication of newsletters and the construction of networks inside the Olympic village for the purpose of information sharing. Although these activities are not directly related to the enhancement of athletic performances, investigation has shown that other countries are putting more efforts into information sharing among their teams in comparison to Japan. This suggests that these kind of activities need to be reinforced for upcoming Games.