Sebastian COE The election process has been criticized on Friday For International Olympic Committee (COI), presented as a candidate, saying that The time given to each candidate to show their program is too short And? Accessing to IOC members is too restrained.
The new president is set to be elected on Thursday in a vote held in Costa Novarino (Greece). Seven candidates, including Sebastian COE and the Spanish Juan Antonio SamaranchThey are currently intending to replace the outgoing President Thomas Bach.
Former double Olympic medalist 1,500 meters and current president of World Athletics, 68, He expressed his failure to the fact that candidates only had 20 minutes To show your program to 109 IOC members to choose one of them. He also regrets the lack of access that they offer to candidates to choose one of them.
«Is this a process to check? Yes, no doubt »He said at a phone conference with press agencies. “I think there’s a better and more inclusive way to do it.”
“There should be more access to members, more transparency,” he said. «It’s hard to defend your arguments and I don’t think the guide principles of election are that. Elections are important because they allow people to maintain a conversation. In the future, it should be a more open and broad process ».
The main rival of Sebastian COE They are a priori Juan Antonio Samaranchthat the father taught the IOC for 21 years to 2001, and Kirsty CoventryZimbabuense swimmer and seven times Olympic gold medal.
Source: La Verdad
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