The President of Coi Thomas Bach believes that a high fire in Ukraine “may influence” in reading Russian athletes

The pResident of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, He said on Friday that a hypothetical high fire in Ukraine “could influence” the situation of Russian athletes, currently not included in Russian Olympic Committee (COR) He provides Ukrainian sports organizations.

“The decision (to read to COR) does not depend on the war, because then we need to suspend fifty or one hundred committees in the world,” said the German leader. “We are political neutral, but the first condition for Russia’s participation is to meet the rules. The ball is on its roof.”

“A high fire can have an influence if the result affects the status of the Ukraine regions and remains in some way specified, under an agreement,” he said. “I can no longer speak on behalf of the IOC, but if high fire or, better, peace, includes an agreement with the provinces, I think we will accept it completely.”

Bach made these statements in a press teleconference to pick up his mandate’s stock, which ends in June, though on March 20 will choose his successor.

Russia was one of the great headaches of the IOC head during 12 years of Bach’s presidency, first for doping and after Ukraine War. There are few Russian athletes, declared neutral, participated in the last Olympic Games in Paris.

Thomas Bach also identified the presidency of Donald Trump in the United StatesS, a country that will magnost the next games in Tag -init, in 2028 in Los Angeles.

“I do not see that the IOC is under any political pressure,” he said. The next president of the IOC should “trust Trump’s support to Los Angeles Games“

“The games were awarded in his first term (2017), he was a supporter, he wanted the sport,” said Bach, who emphasized that “there is a good relationship between the organization committee of games and Trump management.”

Boxing, close to his presence in Los Angeles 2028

The IOC has given the temporary recognition of World boxingThe new International Federation to take care of Olympic Boxing after the disqualification of I am For corruption. But not all national federations, including the Spaniards, have been disconnected from it.

In the coming weeks, Bach, the Olympic Program Commission “To make a proposal to the Los Angeles Games program”, an edition in which boxing is not accepted so far.

“Depending on what was decided at that meeting, it could lead to a vote on the IOC session related to the integration of boxing in Los Angeles games,” he said.

And about the federations withdrawn to take advantage of the World Boxing, it is a category: “Only the National Olympic Committee can nominate boxers to go to games. They have to go to the recognized national federation, which is enough to have IOC recognition. If not, it will be a penalty for their boxers.”

One crisis after another

The seven candidates to happen Thomas Bach They usually match their programs about the need to provide greater power at the COI assembly, which can be understood as a criticism of German lawyer for having decisions without the availability of plenary.

“I understand this,” said Bach, referring to the sequential crises that have lived in recent years through Olympism (Pandemia, Russia, North Korea …), which demands fast solutions.

“We had to react. We didn’t wait for the session to know what I was thinking. There was no chance. But instead of calling the meeting, we continued consultations with all members. Yesterday I met 200 athletes from around the world; Executive Commission It gathers at least monthly, sometimes weekly … “, said the President.

In a difficult decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games due to Pandemya, now five years ago, Bach said it was not considered to be canceled.

“Our obligation is not canceled, but fix, and give the athletes a chance to shine,” he said.

“The suspension would be easier. We had cancellation insurance. We could carry it out and move on, but this is not an option. We want to betray a generation of athletes.

Bach admits that, at this time, he felt “very relaxed and comfort” because he had no “existing problem related to whatS Olympic Games or the Olympic movement“, But added:” When one is a candidate for the IOC president, it does not become president, but to make a contribution. Then the lips came, the opportunities … and you enjoy it all.

“My motto is’ changes or you will change,” he remembered.

“Maybe sometimes I was too fast, to get to the curve before, and it would be best to wait another month, or two … or five. In general, I think things worked. Perhaps in some decisions I believe in too much and too much time to the good character of the people,” Bach admits.

“My approach to Olympism and life is that every success requires a responsibility. Our success is based on credibility. We need to think about responsibilities, we cannot imagine that climate change is one thing of others. Our mission is to unite the world around the sport,” he said.

“There is one thing when the Olympic movement is always in the crisis, in the sense that our work has not been completed. Paris is a success but it is history,” the President said.

“In the sport we are not saints either. There are always people who want to cheat (…). But there has been a huge development in good governance, in the same …” he said.

On the eve of Women’s Day, Bach recalled that in the Olympic assembly there were 42 % of women. And about the reality of only one (Kirsty Coventry) appearing in seven candidates to rule the IOC, he said: “Any of the 42 % of women can show. That only is shown can be interpreted in different ways.”

“The IOC has made a major progress in the same sexuality, we are on the right path, but this is not the case with the National Committees of Olympic and in many federations,” he acknowledged