The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will choose a new president from seven candidates next week, or for the first time, it will have a female president.
The IOC Executive Board is on March 17th, and the 144th Assembly is from March 18th to 21st in the Greek city of Pylos.
The term of German lawyer and Olympic fencing champion Bach ends on June 23rd.
There is no favorite, although preference is given to IAAF President Sebastian Coe, and there is also the former president's son Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., the president of the cycling association David Lapartient, as well as Zimbabwe's Minister of Sports and Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry, the youngest and only candidate at 41 years old.
At the end of January, the candidacies were also put forward by the sixty-five-year-old Japanese and president of the International Gymnastics Federation, Morinari Watanabe, the three-year-younger president of the International Ski Federation, the Swedish Johan Elias, and Prince Feisal al Hussein.
The presentation to IOC members was very short, so the International Association of Sports Journalists (AIPS) prepared video interviews with the candidates at the end of last month and the beginning of this month, who were able to present their views and ideas in more detail.
Bach was in favor of Kirsty's election, but there is a political scandal behind her, so it is not known how this will be reflected. All candidates have vast experience in sports management and connections around the world, especially the English Earl and the brilliant former athlete Coe and Samaranch Junior, whose father revived and modernized the IOC from 1980 to 2001.
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