{"id":3929,"date":"2025-02-04T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-closed-door-battle-to-become-ioc-president\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:35:19","slug":"the-closed-door-battle-to-become-ioc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-closed-door-battle-to-become-ioc-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Closed-Door Battle to Become IOC President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late Wednesday night, members of the International Olympic Committee gathered for a dinner at the Olympic Museum on the banks of Lake Geneva. The next morning, they would see presentations from seven candidates vying to be their leader, a role that would by most measures be the most important in international sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the closed-doors gathering, the outgoing president, Thomas Bach, ensured that the members present \u2014 the people who determine who will eventually lead the I.O.C. \u2014 were kept apart from the candidates. It was, he said perhaps jokingly, so they could enjoy their meals in peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a scene in keeping with the quirky and sometimes stifling rules of an election that will be decided when I.O.C. members vote in March at a resort in southern Greece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The winner will assume leadership of the organization that controls the Olympics, an event that is as prestigious as it is expensive, and a diplomatic status higher than any other figure in the sports world. But many of the candidates have been critical of the thicket of rules and regulations surrounding the election that they say have hindered their ability to get their message across not only to I.O.C. members but also the wider world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Candidates are barred from holding debates, voicing opposition regarding a rival\u2019s vision for the I.O.C. or even receiving public endorsements from members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat we are looking at as candidates is to become the president of the largest sports movement in the world, and I think, in fairness, transparency and integrity, the world has a right to know who is running and what they stand for,\u201d Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein, one of the candidates, said, in a strikingly direct statement in the protocol heavy world of the 130-year-old organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The institution draws its members from the world of sports and beyond, with federation heads rubbing shoulders with leaders from commerce, politics, show business and \u2014 like in the case of Prince Faisal \u2014 global royalty. Princess Anne, the younger sister of England\u2019s King Charles III, heads the nominations committee for what has been described as the most exclusive club in the world. (There are currently 110 members.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prince Faisal is the only bona fide royal among the seven candidates vying for the presidency. But he\u2019s joined by what counts as I.O.C. aristocracy in the form of the Spanish businessman Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose father led the organization for two decades through 2001 and shaped much of what it has become. Also running are four leaders of sports federations, including Sebastian Coe, the gold medal-winning Olympic runner-turned-head of international track and field. There is also Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer from Zimbabwe, who would be the first woman and the first person from Africa to lead the I.O.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For such a consequential election, much of it is taking place in the dark, away from any form of public (or private) debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The morning after the dinner at the museum, the candidates \u2014 all staying at the luxury Lausanne Palace, the longtime haunt of the I.O.C., which has a suite named for the elder Samaranch \u2014 were taken in black Mercedes minivans to the organization\u2019s headquarters at intervals corresponding with the order in which they were to deliver 15-minute presentations. It was the first and only opportunity for them to speak to the entire membership. Officials had to hand over their cellphones, recordings were not permitted and members were not allowed to ask questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The scene and the secrecy prompted more than one official to fume at the process being more akin to a papal conclave, when the selection of a new pope after a secret vote by a gathering of cardinals is confirmed with white smoke emanating from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After presenting his vision to the members who, like the Catholic cardinals, will vote in secret, Mr. Samaranch said in an interview that he would have loved to have had a recording of his speech. After all, he said, it was \u201cthe speech of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, sitting in a room bearing not only his father\u2019s name but also a large portrait of him, Mr. Samaranch, a member of the I.O.C.\u2019s top board since 2012, said he had not taken the time to challenge the rules of the election, most of which, he said, he disagreed with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the regulations, contact time with voters is severely limited. In-person meetings, beyond the two days in Lausanne, are tightly controlled, with strict requirements to give advanced notice of any such contact to the I.O.C.\u2019s ethics body. Phone calls are allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNonsense,\u201d said Morinari Watanabe, a long-shot candidate from Japan who leads global gymnastics, as the members were chauffeured away after the presentations. The next time they will all be together is on the eve of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Watanabe\u2019s ideas include turning the Olympic Games into a 24-hour enterprise across five continents and renaming the I.O.C. Those are revolutionary thoughts for an organization whose approach to change can be glacial compared with the corporate world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Olympic movement is a powerful movement,\u201d said Mr. Coe, easily the most recognizable of the candidates beyond the clubby world of sports politics. \u201cIt should be the thought leadership in sport, it should be setting the tone and style, and, my goodness, there is nothing like the Olympic Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The winner will control an organization that generates almost $8 billion per four-year Olympic cycle. But perhaps more important, the role is considered the top diplomat in sports, a bridge in an increasingly fractious world, with a prize in the Summer Olympics for which great powers vie. Vladimir V. Putin, Russia\u2019s leader, was the first to call Thomas Bach after his election in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most members refused to offer any insight into whom they were thinking of voting for, or even basic questions about what characteristics they would like to see in a candidate. Luis Mejia Oviedo, a delegate from the Dominican Republic, sitting in the oak-trimmed lobby of the Lausanne Palace, only smiled and offered a handshake as a response to each of three questions about the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Syed Shahid Ali, a Pakistani who has been an I.O.C. member for almost 30 years, said debate within the movement had slowly eroded, giving members little say in crucial decisions. That has been a regular critique of the organization under Mr. Bach, a former German fencer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe I.O.C. is an autonomous body but quite private in one sense,\u201d Mr. Ali said as he watched an attendant open a door for Prince Albert II of Monaco to enter a chauffeur-driven Lexus and make his departure. \u201cIt controls world sport, so from that sense it\u2019s not all that private. But from the inner workings of how it functions \u2014 that is quite private.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many of the candidates, including Mr. Samaranch and Ms. Coventry, are established members of the I.O.C.\u2019s top board and have vowed to give members a greater voice again. That includes having a say in the organization\u2019s most important choice: where the Olympics will take place. Under Mr. Bach, that choice has largely been taken away, with the members evaluating just one preferred candidate put forward by the I.O.C. leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey should have said it much earlier,\u201d Mr. Ali said. \u201cIt shows lack of courage of convictions or the fact it might be an afterthought or it might be that it\u2019s only applicable now you\u2019re a candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With a largely inscrutable and diverse electorate, forecasting front-runners is a tricky task. There has been speculation that Ms. Coventry, who recently became a mother for the second time, has the backing of the incumbent Mr. Bach. \u201cI think he\u2019s being very fair to all of us,\u201d Ms. Coventry told a news conference capped at 10 minutes per candidate after their pitches. \u201cI don\u2019t feel that he is out campaigning for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the winner, there will be a bulging to-do list, with a notable focus on the United States, where the biggest television contract requires updating after a decade; the national antidoping agency is in the midst of an increasingly acrimonious war with the global antidoping regulator; and the next Summer Olympics \u2014 in Los Angeles in 2028 \u2014 is being planned under a mercurial Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese are big challenges, they\u2019ll be in my in-tray if I am successful,\u201d Mr. Coe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With votes to be secured, candidates now face a race against time to press their case. Mr. Samaranch hoped to gather a few stragglers before they left for their homes, businesses and palaces around the world. 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