by Geneva (AP) – The seven candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee saw their program published Thursday, and one of them proposes to accept only half of the eight -year term proposed and to appear again in 2029.
Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics who was 68 years old this year, is committed to joining “a transformer change over the next four years”, then being re -elected earlier than expected.
Coe was one of the many candidates offering to give back to CIO members – who elect their president at a meeting from March 18 to 21 near the site of the former Olympia in Greece – a decisive choice in the choice of future host cities.
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Under the concrete chairmanship of Thomas Bach, who will reach the limit of 12 years of mandate next year, members will only have to automatically approve a single host candidate who worked with the IOC administration.
Two members of the IOC Executive Board chaired by Bach, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. and Prince Feisal Al Hussein joined Coe to promise members to play a more important role in the Olympic organization. They also promise to raise the retirement age for members aged 70 to 75.
Members must be invited to join the exclusive CIO club and the current 111 include royal Europe and the Middle East personalities, leaders of international sports organizations, ancient and current Olympic athletes, politicians, diplomats , industrialists and an Oscar -winning actress.
Only IOC members can be candidates for the presidential election and the other contenders are Kirsty Coventry, member of the board of directors, and three other presidents of the ruling instances of sport: Johan Eliasch for skiing, David Lappartient for Cycling and Morinari Watanabe For gymnastics.
The publication of the manifesto is one of the two significant events of an essentially opaque campaign with strict rules to limit self-promotion and commitment to voters. The candidates will present themselves to the voters, without answering questions, at a meeting on January 30 at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The IOC did not have any president and only nine men at its head during its 130 years of history. Eight of these presidents were European and one of the United States.
Coventry, 41, Minister of Sports in Zimbabwe, is only the second woman candidate to present herself to the management of the IOC and is widely considered as Bach’s favorite choice to pursue her policy.
Coventry and Coe are twice Olympic champions in swimming and track. Coe also directed the organization of the London Olympic Games in 2012.
Coe has upset the Establishment of the IOC – including some voters – this year by hiring World Athletics to pay $ 50,000 in gold medalists in athletics at the Paris Olympic Games. Sport will also reward silver and bronze medalists at the Los Angeles summer games in 2028.
Without specifying the prices in money, Prince Feisal called for the Olympic athletes to be “properly evaluated”, while Samaranch proposed to allow athletes to use images of their performance on social networks. This would relax the strict IOC rules on the ability of Olympic athletes to promote.
The challenges that the IOC is confronted with the choice of a host country for the 2036 Olympic Games, with India and Qatar in the mixture, and the possibility of moving the summer games of the place they occupy Between July and August in the modern sports calendar.
The next CIO president will also have to tackle the impact of climate change on the global sports calendar, gender issues in sport, the moment and how to fully bring Russia to the Olympic Games and the signing of a new agreement of broadcast with the United States. The NBC agreement, a long-standing partner, expires after the Brisbane Olympic Games in 2032 and constitutes the basis of Olympic income, which amounted to $ 7.6 billion for the 2021-24 Olympic cycle.
The presidency of the IOC was limited to 12 years in the context of the anti-corruption reforms adopted after the bursting of the candidacy of the candidacy of Salt Lake City in 1999. The first mandate is eight years and the presidents can run for a second and last four -year term.
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