The president of the IOC, the German Thomas Bach, that he shared with his alternative Kirsty Coventry Having a champion at the Olympic, it is considered that this condition is “huge” helps to exercise the position.
The Zimbabuense, Double Olympic Champion In Swimming, was selected on Thursday to the next IOC president, June.
“Being Olympic’s champion helped me a lot of my meetings with political leaders. Others look at you differently, you enter a meeting and you don’t have to explain why you are there. You are not in another position, you do not have to defend yourself. People are more curious about you than you for them,”
Among the candidates for the IOC president during the Thursday election, the Coventry and British Sebastian COE were the only Olympic champions.
At a press conference at the end of the 144th session in Costa Navarino, the President said the Coventry election, the first wife and first Africa to oversee the IOC, was more examples of globality than the woman’s development.
“Gender similarity is just a piece of puzzle. There are eight presidents in front of me and we are all European except for an American and it does not reflect the difference -the Olympic movement. This election is, above all, a promise to globality,” he said.
“The result is a demonstration of good governance and that the IOC has a true global organization,” he insisted.
Bach, who met in the morning with his successor to conclude in terms of the transition stage between the same presidential, said it was not “a breakfast to give advice, but for technical issues.”
“The elected president has to meet with the directors without having an old president,” he added.
In the balance of his mandate, he said that “in the Olympic movement has never finished tasks, there are always things to do.”
“We have done a lot for the same sexuality in the IOC, but in international federations there will be only a female president. The development made in doping has also been seen, but there is a task forever,” he puts as examples.
As for the US doping and tense relationship with the World Agency (FATHER), for the alleged secretion of cases in China, Bach trusts an improvement: “We know that there are contacts between the Father and the United States. I hope the context will contribute to find a solution to this hot debate.”
He also referred to the scope of climate change in the Olympic Games.
“There are places where the games are no longer repaired in August. And there is a dramatic reduction of potential winter cities.
Regarding the possibility that the games were finally played in Africa with coventry in the presidency, Thomas Bach said they knew “there was a great interest.”
“But it is largely dependent on Africa, with a clear desire to have a continuous conversation with the IOC. Then, as another continent, it will have a fair opportunity,” he said.
The president told the media with an irony: “I will miss them.”
Source: La Verdad
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