Samaranch offers “speed up the change” in IOC because “yesterday’s recipes are no longer worth”

Juan Antonio SamaranchCandidate for the Presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) In the March 20 election, said Thursday Thursday His purpose is to “speed up” the changes in the organism because “yesterday’s recipes are no longer worth”.

Then Show your program in Lausana (Switzerland) to agency members to choose the new president, The Spanish leader placed the emphasis on his experience with the IOC And in the world of finance to rule out those changes.

“We distribute most of what we enter between the base of the sport. This Requires diplomacy, politics, management. A complex structure. But we also need a complex financial machinery. I launched myself because I had a significant experience in the same field. I reached the Olympic movement in critical moments And I was also in decisive positions in my own company, “he summarized before the media after performing his presentation, behind the closed doors.

“We need leadership“He said. And for this, as he maintains his program, he said that”You need to empower the members “of the IOC so that decisions do not make them only” some selected“.” This is the best for the future, “he insisted.

Samaranch indicated After the presidency of Thomas Bach and Paris Games evolution should be very fast.

“We’re not at that rate from afar. Our obligation is to speed up the changes. We have a good basis, but yesterday’s recipes are no longer served,” he said.

The candidate repeated this formula when referring to his father, who ruled the IOC between 1980 and 2001: “I appreciate his legacy, his example is always with me, but the old formulas are no longer worth it.”

SamaranchLike the rest of his candidacy companions, He had a memory message for plane accident victims Wednesday in Washingtonwhere some artistic skaters died.

“It is very important what we do now, but Before losing human life, athletes or not, you have to put everything in perspective“, Says.