The Commission was set-up following a recommendation by the Olympic Congress in Copenhagen last October.

It has been established to address matters relating to coaches, trainers and the athletes entourage in general.

Among the most high-profile roles the new Commission will have is looking at doping cases that may be linked to the athletes' coaches, agents or doctors.

It is another landmark appointment for Bubka, the world record holder for the pole vault and the 1988 Olympic champion, who has established a successful new career for himself as a sports administrator since his retirement.

He is already the chairman of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the first Youth Olympic Summer Games which will be held in Singapore later this year and he is a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

The Ukrainian is also expected to run for the Presidency of the IAAF next year, which could pit him against London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, who is also considering standing.

The other members of the Commission include Ireland's Pat McQuaid, New Zealand's Barry Maister and America's Angela Ruggiero (pictured), who were only elected to the IOC in February.

Along with Bubka, Maister and Ruggiero are among five Olympic medallists on the Commission.

Maister was a member of the New Zealand hockey team that won the gold medals at Montreal in 1976 and is now the secretary general of the New Zelanad Olympic Committee (NZOC).

Ruggiero, who won a gold medal at Nagano in 1998 as a member of the United States ice hockey team and has also claimed two silver and a bronze since, is joined by Claudia Bokel, a former fencer who won a silver in epee at the 2004 Athens Games, and Guy Drut, the 110m hurdles champion at Montreal.

McQuaid, the President of the UCI, is a former professional cyclist.

There are other two members to be added to the Commission, one representing the National Olympic Committees and the other the International Federations.

They will be announced shortly.

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