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Bach's successor needs cool head to guide Olympics through stormy seas: experts
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 ...
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Thomas Bach made honorary IOC president for life
Outgoing International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has become the second person to be named honorary IOC preisdent for life. The 144th IOC Session approved an according proposal from ...
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President−elect Kirsty Coventry warmly received by IOC staff at Olympic House
A fortnight after her historic election, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s President-elect, Kirsty Coventry, was warmly welcomed by IOC President Thomas Bach, ...
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Olympic Committee will elect a new president this week. Is Trump affecting the race?
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns likely know outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach as the official who announced last year the state was getting another Winter Games with the ...
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A look at the seven candidates in the International Olympic Committee presidential election
A two-time Olympic champion runner in the 1,500 meters ... That move, and how it was announced, annoyed outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach and also leaders of other sports. Some of those will vote ...
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🔴 Live: International Olympic Committee votes for its next leader
The next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), one of the most powerful people in sport, will be elected on Thursday. The vote to succeed Thomas Bach as the president of the IOC is ...
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Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach plots eleventh-hour bid to stop Lord Seb Coe from succeeding him - two days before vote to name sport's most powerful figure
Thomas Bach is said to have planned ... Juan Antonio Samaranch Jnr of Spain; and multiple Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s sports minister. Coventry, 41, is believed to be Bach’s ...
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Olympics-Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead International Olympic Committee
PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee ... already a towering figure in Olympic circles, emerged victorious to replace Thomas Bach, securing the ...
Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of International Olympic Committee
The previous nine presidents were men from Europe or the U.S."This is an extraordinary moment," she said in an address to IOC members moments after outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach made the ...
Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry elected to lead the International Olympic Committee. Here’s what she says about Trump
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the Switzerland-based organization’s first woman and first African leader. “This is an ...
Kirsty Coventry first woman, African elected president of International Olympic Committee
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee on the first ballot, making her the first woman to lead the organization.