Fuente: International Business Times
The person who succeeds Thomas Bach as IOC president will require tact and political savvy to meet the enormous challenges ahead AFP Whoever succeeds Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday will need to be "cool under fire" with some members believing the very existence of the Olympic Movement is at stake. Seven candidates are vying to become the most powerful person in sport governance and replace Bach, who steps down after a stormy 12-year tenure when he had to contend with Covid, a Russian doping scandal as well as Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "I believe this is the most significant Olympic election in nearly half a century," Michael Payne, a former head of IOC Marketing, told AFP.
