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His successor is set to be elected on Thursday from seven candidates. The only other honorary IOC president for life is the Juan Antonio Samaranch, who led the IOC 1980-2001 and died in 2010 ...
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 ...
As he approaches his final week in the sporting world's top job, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is feeling relaxed. When a new IOC president is elected Thursday ...
For 12 years, Bach has overseen one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of the Olympic movement – a global pandemic with two Games behind closed doors, a state-sponsored Russian ...
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Monday the executive board he chairs approved including boxing on the 2028 program. It still needs a full IOC Session of about 100 members to ...
The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry believed to ...
Thomas Bach focused on how peace is the essence of the Olympics but also how fragile it is in a speech yesterday at the opening of the final International Olympic Committee session he will preside ...
Whoever succeeds Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday would need to be “cool under fire”, with some members believing the very existence of the Olympic ...
Should we expect anything less? Over the past few years the International Olympic Committee, under Bach, has failed to look after half of its membership – females – and Bach has not understood ...