For the seven who want to conquer the most powerful position of the sport – the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – they will take their 15 minutes of fame on Thursday.
One woman and six men take a chance to present their manifesto, their vision of the Olympic movement in front of the entire Olympic family in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
It is the only time the candidates to succeed the current President of IOC Thomas Bach have “official” time to persuade IOC membership which is more than 200 nations than they have to vote for them.
Following the presentations from “7”, the IOC family has to wait until March when everyone meets in Athens, Greece to vote.
Then we will know who will be the new IOC president, the man or woman who will oversee the Winter Olympics in Milan in just over a year and then deal with US President Donald Trump as well as destruction caused by fires around Los Angeles in front of LA 2028 Summer Games.
IOC also has many other challenges to address and while there is a junction of ideas among the seven candidates, some have stronger ideas more audible and others less.
Sports legend COE needs little entry
Of the seven candidates, two are British. Sebastian coe needs little entry. A sports legend on the right track, Olympic Golds and world records to be associated with the label of the person who handed over the Olympic Games and Successful Paralympics in London 2012.
He has revolutionized the world -wide athletic body from IAAF tired in a living athletics world since he became president in 2015. He is one of the capable communicators of life and a sharp politician, a very useful feature in the harsh world of the administration of elite sports.
The other British candidate is much less publicly recognized but Johanch Elich Packets a handful with his CV.
A billionaire businessman who specializes in returning the company’s assets, the most popular of ‘Koka’ sport producer.
In recent decades he has turned his attention to climate and environmental issues. Quiet and gentle spoken with a Swedish accent Lilt, he was born and raised there, Eliasch is also president of a global sport. His governing body is a tribe for ski and snow. He has also worked for the prime ministers, advised both work and conservatives and counts the kingdom as friends.
Eliasch’s USP is its climate credentials. A billionaire yes, so some will say he may afford to have an awareness, but he is talking about it for a while.
In 2005, he founded the Rainforest Trust and a year later he co-founded the cold land, both entities exist to protect and preserve endangered rain forests.
As president of a winter sport, the future of the Winter Olympics needs addressing and who may have been able to wait it, while the Los Angeles game count of 2028 marks down, as the broad areas around LA are burned on the ground during the end wild fires.
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Joan Eliach is the poster for posting.
Said Eliasch News Sky Sports: “Governments have not been very effective when it comes to climate change. And this is an existential threat to humanity. The planet was not created for eight billion people living as we do. And there is only one planet. And we do not want” t technology to go elsewhere in galaxy or universe.
“We need to find a solution, now if we translate it into initiatives … For winter games, there are many places, many places that will be very challenging.
“I am not entirely negative for the future of winter games. But here we also have a task of acting steadily. We do not want to create infrastructure that cannot be used in the future and is much better, as it is already Proposed by IOC, to have a rotational scheme.
“We focus on certain regions, places where the federations in question can bring events, support these regions. So for winter games smaller regions used every two or three Winter Publishing. So imagine this, we have Let’s say the 10 places and we rotate the games between these 10 places. “
An impressive figure with an impressive CV, but Eliasch has issues that some IOC members may look for.
When he became president of the tribe, four of the largest snow sports places initially refused to vote after Eliasch was the only name on the ballot, not even the “Yes/No” option had angered them while Eliasch casts any link With business relationships with Duke of York, Prince Andrew.
Eliasch acknowledges that a business was created in 2002 where the Duke of York used one of his titles, Earl of orrew inverness, but says he knows and had a friendship with the Prince through a wider friendship with the royal family members.
While Eliasch suppresses his environmental credentials, he is currently seen as a stranger, albeit with a CV of electricity.
Coe is a precursor
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Lord Coe tells the old Sky Sports reporter Geraint Hughes that he “has never been better prepared for a race” than he is for his campaign to become the new President of the International Olympic Committee
Coe on the other hand is one of the forerunners to follow Thomas Bach with an energy for the high work he said Heavenly It was a “dance he couldn’t sit.”
While COE, like all candidates, is again publicly withdrawn from the adoption of the IOC revolution, COE’s “evolution” comes from the belief that “a lot of power stands in the hands of very few people” within the IOC.
IOC I COE would see sports and athletes in the heart and center of all decision -making along with all IOC membership. He wants a collaborative presidency.
Coe has been the most vocal of all candidates about the debate to determine what the “female category” is. As president of world athletics, he has overseen a policy that defines it and has forbidden transgender women from competing in that category.
The rule says that “no transgender athlete that had gone through masculine puberty would be allowed to compete in the world -class women’s races.”
If COE becomes the new IOC president, issues will be addressed on the protection of the “women’s category” and the money, another debated topic. His belief was and is, if the IOC had a clear policy about transgender and DSD athletes (changes in sexual development) in Paris 2024. had been avoided.
Who are Cole and Eliaich against?
Kirsty Coventry is the only female candidate
Five other candidates are competing to become the next IOC president.
The only female candidate is Kirsty Coventry by Zimbabwe.
Coventry was a decorated Olympic swimmer, winning gold at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
After retirement, she is heavily involved in the sports administration, including the Minister of Sports of Zimbabwe, if she wins the presidency vote, Coventry would become the first woman to hold the IOC president’s office.
Another known name is the Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch. He is the son of the former IOC president who gave birth to his name.
Samararance SNR was president of IOC for 21 years between 1980 and 2001 while his son has been an active member of the IOC for two decades.
He is capable of the IOC policy and well known among the electorate and highly viewed as an front of Coe.
Other candidates include HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein by Jordan, David Lappartent of France who is the president of the Global Body of UCI – Cycling and Morinari watanabe from Japan.
