IOC Presidential election: Seb Coe and Johan Eliasch among seven candidates running for most powerful post in world sport | Olympics News

For the seven people who want to occupy a stronger position in sports – Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – they will get 15 minutes of Thursday.

A woman and six men get an opportunity to present their statement, and their vision of the Olympic Movement in front of the entire Olympic Dynasty in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

It is the only time that the candidates for the fear of the President of the International Committee of the United States of America, Thomas Bakht, the “official” time to persuade the membership of the International Olympic Committee that exceeds 200 countries must vote in its favor.

After the presentations made by “7”, the IOC family should wait until March when they all meet in Athens, Greece to vote.

After that, we will know who will be the new president of the International Olympic Committee, a man or a woman who will supervise the Milan Olympics for a little more than a year and then deal with US President Donald Trump as well as fire damage around Los Angeles before Los Angeles La 2028 summer games .

IOC also faces many other challenges that must be faced, and while there is an intersection of ideas between the seven candidates, some of them have more chanted ideas while others are less.

Coe’s sports legend needs a small introduction

Among the seven candidates, two British. Sebastian Co It needs a few introduction. Sports legend on the track, Olympic Golds and World Preparatory Records along with the mark of the Successful London Olympics.

It has caused a revolution in the World Athletics Games from IAAF tiring to worldly athletic athletics since he became president in 2015. He is one of the communication who are able to live and intelligently politician, and is a very useful feature in the harsh world of sports elite management.

The other British candidate is less famous, but Johan Elias Punch packages with his CV.

A billionaire businessman who specializes in converting the company’s wealth, which is the most famous in the “President” sport company.

In recent decades, he turns his attention to climate and environmental issues. Quiet and spoke quietly with a Swedish accent, was born and raised there, and Elias is the president of a global sport. Its judgment is a fis for skiing and skiing. He also worked for the prime ministers, advised both the Labor Party and the conservatives and the kings are counted as friends.

USP Eliasch is climate credentials. Yes, a billionaire, so some say he could have awareness, but he was talking about it for a while.

In 2005, Trust RainForest Trust was established and a year later he participated in the establishment of Cool Earth, and both entities are present to protect and preserve endangered rainforests.

As president of winter sport, the future of the winter Olympics that it needs and which may even be able to host it, while the countdown to Los Angeles 2028 games has recently been burned on the ground. Forest fires.

Eliasch from the outside

Elias said Sky Sports News: “Governments were not very effective when it came to climate change. This is an existential threat to humanity. The planet was not designed for eight billion people living the way we do. There is only one planet. You have technology to go to another place in the galaxy or in the universe.

“We need to find solutions, now if we translate it into initiatives … for winter games, there are many sites, and many places that will be very difficult.

“I am not completely negative about the future of winter games. But here we have to act as well. We don’t want to create an unusual infrastructure that has already been used by IOC, to get a rotational scheme.

“We focus on some areas and places, where the relevant federations may bring events, and support these areas. So for winter games, smaller areas are used every two or three winters of winter games. So imagine this, let’s say 10 places and turn games between these Ten places. “

An impressive character with an impressive CV, but Eliasch carries problems that some International Olympic Committee may inquire.

When he became president of Fis, four of the largest snowy sports countries initially refused to vote because Eliasch was the only name in the ballot paper, not even the “Yes/No” option that has angered them while Eliasch refutes any link to commercial dealings with Duke York, Prince Andrew.

Eliasch admits that he was created in 2002, when the Duke of York used one of his titles, Earl or Andrew Infernes, but he says he knows and has friendship with the prince through a wider friendship with members of the royal family.

While Eliasch presses its environmental credentials, it is currently seen as strange, albeit with a strong biography.

COE is the candidates

On the other hand, COE is one of the applicants who succeeded Thomas Bach with energy for the highest job. Sky Sports It was “a dance that could not sit.”

While COE, like all the candidates, is publicly returning from the support of the revolution in IOC, the “COE development” comes from the belief that “a lot of strength lies in the hands of a few people” within the International Olympic Committee.

COE’s IOC will see sport and athletes in the heart and center of decision -making along with the entire membership of the International Olympic Committee. He wants a cooperative presidency.

COE was the most candidate among all the candidates about the discussion of determining what is the “female category”. As head of global athletics, he supervised a policy that determines this and banned sexually transformed women in this category.

Al -Qaeda states that “no transgender athlete who has gone through males has been allowed to compete in female global rankings.”

If COE, head of the Olympic Committee for New Diseases, becomes issues, issues on the protection of the “female category” and the prize money prize will be dealt with, another topic of hot funds. His belief was, if IOC had a clear policy about sexually transformed athletes and those who suffer from DSD (differences in sexual development) in Paris 2024, the controversy and bad reporting about two boxers, Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting, were avoided.

Who are Cole and Elias?

Five other candidates compete to become the next president of IOC.

The only candidate is Kirsti Coventry From Zimbabwe.

Coventry was an ornamental Olympic swimmer, and won gold medals in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.

After her retirement, she participated greatly in the sports administration, including being the Minister of Sports in Zimbabwe, if she wins the presidential vote, Coventry will become the first woman to carry the office of the president of the International Olympic Committee.

Another recognized name is the Spanish Juan Antonio Samarans. He is the son of the former president of the International Olympic Committee who bore his name.

Samranch SNR was the head of European blocks for 21 years between 1980 and 2001 while his son was an active member of the International Olympic Committee for two decades.

It is well familiar with the IOC policy and is known among the voters and is very seen as a front hostility with COE.

Among the other candidates HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein From Jordan, David Lappartient From France, which is the chairman of the UCI Board – Global Bicycles and Mourinary Watanabi From Japan.