IOC Presidential Elections: Seb Coe and Johan Eliasch among seven candidates who candidate for the most powerful post in world sports | Olympic Games News

For seven who want to occupy the most powerful position of sports sports – President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – will receive 15 minutes of glory on Thursday.
One woman and six men get the opportunity to present their manifesto, their vision of the Olympic movement in front of the entire Olympic family in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
This is the only way to inherit the candidates of the current President Moo Thomas Bach, have a “official” time to convince MOO membership, which is more than 200 nations, that they should vote for them.
After the presentation of “The 7”, the MOO -A family has to wait until March when everyone meets in Athens, Greece, to vote.
Then we will know who will be the new president of MOO, a man or a woman who will oversee the Winter Olympics in Milan for just over a year and then deal with US President Donald Trump, as well as devastation caused by fires around Los Angeles before LA 2028 Summer games.
IOC also has many other challenges to deal with and while there is a crossover idea among the seven candidates, some have stronger sound ideas, while others are less.
Sport legend Coe needs a little introduction
Of the seven candidates, two are British. Sebastian Coe It takes a little introduction. Sports legend on the track, Olympic Golden and World Records to launch together with a person who delivered a successful Olympic Game and the 2012 Paralympics in London.
He has revolutionized the athletic world that manages the tired IAAF to the colorful world athletics since he became president in 2015. He is one of the life communicators in life and the insightful politician, which is a very useful trait in the sharp world of the elite sports administration.
Another British candidate is much less publicly known but Johan Eliasch packed a blow with its resume.
A businessman of a billionaire who specializes in turning Fortunes, the most famous sports manufacturer ‘head’.
In recent decades, he has drawn attention to climate and environmental questions. Silent and quietly speaking with Swedish accent, he was born and grew up there, Eliasch is also president of global sport. His control body is a ski fis and snowboarding. He also worked for the premiere, he advised both the work and the conservatives, and thinks Royalty as friends.
Eliasch’s cf. They are his climate credentials. A billionaire yes, so some would say that he can afford to have a conscious, but he has been talking about it for some time.
In 2005, he founded Trust Rainforest, and a year later he faced Cool Earth, both entities existed to protect and preserve the threatened rainforest.
As the president of the winter sport, the future of the winter Olympic Games is also needed, and who could even host it, while countdown until 2028 in Los Angeles games descend as huge areas around LA, they burned to the ground during a recent fire.
Eliasch outsider
Eliasch said Sky Sports News: “Governments were not very effective when it comes to climate change. This is an existential threat to humanity. The planet was not designed for eight billion people who live as we did. And there is only one planet. And we don’t have ‘have technology to go somewhere else in galaxy or in space.
“We have to find solutions, now if we translate this into initiatives … There are many locations for winter games, many places that will be very challenging.
“I am not completely negative about the future of winter games. But here we have a duty to act as sustainable. We do not want to create an infrastructure that cannot be used in the future and is much better, as it has already proposed to IOC, to have a rotation scheme.
“We are focused on certain regions, places where the Federation in question can bring events, support these regions. So, for winter games smaller regions used every two or three winter games. So imagine this, say 10 places and rotate games between these 10 seats. “
An impressive figure with an impressive CV, but Eliasch has problems that some MOO members can absorb with.
When they became president of FIS, four of the major SNOW Sport countries refused to vote because Eliasch was the only name on the ballot, not even the “yes/no” option. Duke of York, Prince Andrew.
Eliasch admits that the job was founded in 2002 where Duke of York used one of his titles, Earl of or Andrew Inverness, but says that he knows and had a friendship with a prince through wider friendship with members of the royal family.
While Eliasch presses his or her environmental credentials, he has been viewed as an outsider for now, though one with CV.
Coe is a leader
Coe, on the other hand, is one of the leaders who succeeded Thomas Bach with energy for the best job he said Sky Sports was “dance, he couldn’t sit.”
While Coe, like all candidates, responds publicly from the approval of the revolution to the MOO, Coe’s “evolution” comes from the belief that “too much power lies in the hands of too few people” inside Moo.
Coe IOC would see sports and athletes in the heart and center of all decisions, along with the entire membership of Moo. He wants a collaborative presidency.
Coe was the most vocal of all candidates about the debate about determining what the “female category”. As president of the world athletics, he oversee the policy that determined it and forbade transgender women to compete in that category.
As a rule, it is stated that “no transgender athlete who went through a male puberty would not be allowed to compete in competitions in women’s world ranking.”
If Coe becomes the new IOC president, the questions of the “Women’s Category” and prize money, another hot debate topics, will be resolved. His belief was that Moo had a clear policy of transgender athletes and those with DSD (differences in sexual development) in Paris 2024, controversy and wrong reporting about two female boxers, imana Khelif and Lin Yu Ting, he would have avoided.
Who are Cole and Eliasch against?
Five other candidates work to become the next MOO President.
The only candidate is Kirsty Coventry from Zimbabwe.
Coventry was a decorated Olympic swimmer, winning gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
After retirement, she was strongly involved in the sports administration, including the Minister of Sport Zimbabve, if he won the Voting on the Presidency, Coventry would become the first woman to serve as President MOO.
Another recognizable name is Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch. He is the son of the former president of MOO who has been carrying his name.
Samaranch SNR was the president of IOC 21 years between 1980 and 2001, while his son is an active member of IOC for two decades.
He is well versed in MOO’s policies and is well known among the electorates and is very viewed as a front runner with Coe.
Other candidates include HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein from Jordan, David Lappartient France who is the President of the UCI – the bicycle global management body and Morinars of Watanabe from Japan.