These are the four big challenges for Samaranch Salisachs if he is to lead the IOC

Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachsmember of the Executive Commission and Vice President of the IOC, announced this Monday his candidacy for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee with four major challenges in your program:

1) Maintain and strengthen the universality and independence of the Olympic movement.

2) Protect the bets of new generations and new technologies. Leisure time is getting a great role and we should focus on the youth and the use of new technologies.

3) Improve the governance of the International Olympic Committee, give greater responsibility, power and voice to the IOC members themselves.

4) Equality and justice. Develop rules on doping, gender, artificial intelligence…

In a statement sent to the media, Mundo Deportivo among them, Samaranch is committed to promoting and protecting the core values ​​of the Olympic movement: excellence, respect and friendship.

“The enduring message of the Olympic Movement has been one of peace, unity and universality since its creation three thousand years ago. In an increasingly complex and divided world, I believe these ancient values ​​are among the few ideals that can unite the world. Because “IOC members serve as temporary stewards of Olympic values, not only for now but for future generations, and this fuels my passion for leading our movement. “

Samaranch Salisachs has been a member of the IOC since 2001 (he was elected in Moscow), Vice President for six years and a member of the IOC Executive Board for ten years. He has served the Olympic Movement for the past 23 years in various capacities as President of the Coordination Commission for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Member of the Coordination Commission for the Turin 2006 and Sochi 2014 Winter Games, member of Digital Engagement and Marketing Commission, President of the Board of Directors of Olympic Channel Services SL, and Member of the Board of Directors of IOC Television.

In the note, Samaranch reiterated how the IOC is dealing with new geopolitical realities that are no longer based on the stability of the past, new cultural realities that affect the health and well-being of athletes and the Games, new realities in economy that they need an objective assessment of the long-term business model of the IOC, and the need to exploit and optimize the transformative opportunities offered by new technologies.

Samaranch paid tribute to President Thomas Bach for driving the development and evolution of the IOC over the years and highlighted the need for greater empowerment of IOC members to ensure that the legacy of reforms in Agenda 2020 Bach’s +5 is .

Samaranch has extensive business experience, helping transform business models and practices of the financial industry, while building his own international financial advisory group over three decades.

“The IOC and the Olympic movement have made tremendous progress in the last decade under the leadership of Thomas Bach. The IOC now needs a new leader with deep experience in the Olympic movement, who can help guide it through the process of chaos. believes that effective leadership is based on four principles: Experience, Insight, Judgment and Collaboration.”

Experience lays the foundation for understanding, vision frames opportunities and risks in their proper context, and judgment provides the wisdom, ethics, and critical thinking needed to make good decisions. And the basis of it all is collaboration between our members and beyond. The IOC needs a president who can articulate a clear vision and lead our Movement based on these four principles. And I humbly believe that I can fulfill that role.”

Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs studied industrial engineering at the University of Barcelona and obtained his MBA from New York University in 1986. In 1991 he founded GBS Finance SA, an independent investment bank based in Madrid with offices on three continents.