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Kirsty Coventry makes history as first woman elected IOC president
Former German fencer and longtime IOC executive Thomas Bach has had the job since 2013. WOMEN'S SPORTS: The latest news and insider insights from USA TODAY Studio IX. Coventry had long been one of the ...
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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 to prevent Lord Coe from ... Yet Coe is seen as too unreliable and too much of a maverick by Germany’s former foil fencer Bach, who, it is argued, was annoyed by ...
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IOC names outgoing boss Bach as honorary president for life
PYLOS, Greece : Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was named honorary president ... IOC members at their session in southern Greece. Bach, a German lawyer and former ...
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What outgoing IOC president says about Utah's Games — and transgender athletes at Olympics
The 71-year-old German fencer, who won Olympic gold at the 1976 ... International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach talks with youth figure skaters at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns on ...
The Straits Times21d
Thomas Bach ranks with IOC presidential greats Samaranch and de Coubertin: experts
COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – Thomas Bach’s life has been dominated by the Olympics, as a team fencing gold medallist and then International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief – and he deserves to be ...
Olympics: Coventry elected new IOC president as Watanabe misses out
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected the first female and African president of the International Olympic Committe ...
Los Angeles Daily News22d
In Thursday’s election for IOC president, Sebastian Coe’s once close friend may work against him
Besides Bach, winner of a fencing gold medal for West Germany at the 1976 Olympic ... “There is no doubt that Thomas Bach has been very enthusiastic about Kirsty Coventry,” Andersen said. “When she ...
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Thomas Bach made honorary IOC president for life
Outgoing International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has become the second ... Movement what I could give back." Germany's Bach, a fencing gold medallist from 1976, oversaw wide ...
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IOC names outgoing boss Bach as honorary president for life
PYLOS, Greece March 19 (Reuters) - Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach ... Sign up here. Bach, a German lawyer and former Olympic fencing champion, took over in 2013 ...
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Thomas Bach named honorary IOC president for life
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach was named Honorary ... A former Olympic fencing champion, Bach acknowledged the profound impact sports had on his life.
Orange County Register22d
In Thursday’s election for IOC president, Sebastian Coe’s once close friend may work against him
Besides Bach, winner of a fencing gold medal for West Germany at ... “There is no doubt that Thomas Bach has been very enthusiastic about Kirsty Coventry,” Andersen said.