He International Olympic Committee announced on Monday seven candidates to officially lead the highest body of Olympicism starting in 2025. And some of them are a surprise.
Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachsthe British Sir Sebastian Coe, the French David Lappartient, the Japanese Morinori Watanabe, the Jordanian Feisal al Hussein, the Swede Johan Eliasch and the Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry are the seven candidates who will contest the election in March 2025 to replace the head of the IOC in Germany, Thomas Bach.
The organization published the list of candidates on Monday, following the deadline for submitting candidacies on Sunday. The Aruban Nicole Hoevertsz, first vice president of the IOC, was not included in the first pools, and the billionaire and newcomer to the Olympic Games Johan Eliasch, the head of international cycling, David Lappartient, and the President of International Gymnastics Federation has applied , Morinari Watanabe.
In statements to Mundo Deportivo Samaranch Salisachs appreciates his figure in the world of sport and Olympicism especially about “experience.” And he believes that “this is an appropriate and wonderful time to show myself. I have shown management ability. I am facing a phase of my life with great enthusiasm and joy, my company is working well, my children are older and I can dedicate myself 100 percent to the International Olympic Committee”.
Samaranch also wanted to clarify in this newspaper that “I have never used my father as something useful in my career. In almost a quarter of a century of belonging to the IOC, I think I already know if how to deliver my management skills and effectiveness.”
The winner of the elections, in the March 2025 Session in Greece, will be the tenth president of the IOC, an entity founded in 1894 and responsible for the organization of the largest universal sporting event, the Olympic Games.
The candidates will present their programs, behind closed doors, to all IOC members at a meeting to be held in Lausanne (Switzerland) in January 2025.
Source: La Verdad
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