The BOA has extended its partnership with professional services firm Deloitte UK through to 2020 ©Deloitte

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has extended its partnership with professional services firm Deloitte UK through to 2020, it was announced today.

The agreement will run up to and including Tokyo 2020. 

Deloitte UK and the BOA first joined forces in 2007, with the deal described as "integral to the planning, preparation and delivery of the BOA's success through London 2012 and Rio 2016".

The company have also been praised for their support to the BOA in the build-up to last year's Olympic Games in the Brazilian city.

"It was acutely understood that the Rio 2016 Olympic Games would pose a series of complex problems in the build-up and during the execution of the Games themselves," the BOA said in a statement.

"The BOA's planning and operations, developed in close partnership with Deloitte, were geared towards achieving the objective of having the best prepared, best performing and best supported team during the Games."

BOA chief executive Bill Sweeney welcomed the extension of the deal with Deloitte, founded in 1845.

"Deloitte played a vital role in shaping and driving our programmes in the build-up to and during Rio 2016," he said. 

The British Olympic Association and Deloitte first joined forces in 2007 ©Getty Images
The British Olympic Association and Deloitte first joined forces in 2007 ©Getty Images

Sweeney added: "There are a lot of independent and interactive components that deliver success on the field of play and Deloitte were key in helping us to manage this process. 

"We share a long and successful relationship and it is therefore with great pride that we can look ahead to Pyeongchang and Tokyo, putting in place innovative and bespoke solutions to help reach our ambitious targets.

"This extended partnership also takes us into a new strategic phase where we will review various initiatives which will allow the BOA to evolve and grow as a fully integrated and sustainable business model."

Deloitte chief executive and senior partner David Sproul claimed the agreement would "help us further the impact we have on the BOA as an organisation, whilst providing unique opportunities for our people and clients over the next four years".

"Our Deloitte British Olympic Association secondees in Rio played critical roles in supporting Team GB athletes to deliver the best ‘away Games’ performance ever," he added.

Britain won a total of 67 Olympic medals at Rio 2016, surpassing the 65 they won at London 2012.

Their performance saw them become the first-ever nation to better their medal haul at a Games that immediately follows a home Olympics.