Battle of a closed door to become the president of IOC

Late on Wednesday, the members of the International Olympic Committee gathered for dinner at the Olympic Museum on the shores of Lake Geneva. The next morning, they will see the presentations from seven candidates are fighting for their leaders. This is the most important role in international sports by most measures.

At the gathering of the closed squad, the retirement President Thomas Bach guarantees that the attendees (those who ultimately decide who will lead the IOC) is far from the candidates. He probably joked, so they were able to enjoy a peaceful meal.

This was a scene in which the election was determined when voting at a resort in southern Greece in March, and sometimes in line with stuffy rules.

The winner assumes the leadership of an organization that manages the Olympics. This is as honorable as expensive and higher diplomatic status than any other person in the sports world. However, many candidates were critical of the excursions of elections and regulations surrounding elections not only to IOC members but also to the ability to communicate messages to a wider world.

Candidates are forbidden to express the opposition of rivals against the IOC or even receive public approval from members.

“What we see as a candidate is to be the president of the world's largest sports movement. Fair, transparency, honesty, who is running and what they are doing. I think he has the right to know in a surprisingly direct statement in the heavy world of 130 years ago.

The institution is gathering the world of sports and the subsequent members, and the head of the federal is rubbed with global royal leaders, as in the case of commercial, politics, show business, and prince Fausal. Princess Anne, the sister of England's King Charles III, led a nomination committee for what is said to be the most exclusive club in the world. (Currently there are 110 members.)

Fausal Prince is the only genuine royal family among the seven candidates competing for the presidential position. However, he joined the IOC nobleman in the form of Spanish businessmen, Juan Antonio Samarang. It also operates the four leaders of the Sports Union, including the International Athletics Competition, which turned to Sebastianko and the Olympic runner who won the gold medal. And for the first time there is a female candidate: Castico Ventary, a swimmer of the Olympic champion from Zimbabwe, is the first person in Africa who led the IOC.

Many of them are in the dark, far from the public (or private) discussions of all forms for such a result.

The morning after dinner at the museum, the candidate -everyone is staying in the luxurious Loresanne Palace, which is the long -standing place of IOC, which has a long -standing suite named in Samarangch, is the organization of the Blackmelsedes minivan. I was taken to the headquarters. By ordering a 15 -minute presentation. It was the first and only opportunity to talk to the entire membership. The authorities had to hand over their mobile phones, the recording was not allowed, and the members were not allowed to ask questions.

The scene and the secret are a process similar to the Pope's conclave when the new pope's choice after a secret voting by the gathering of the central unit is confirmed with a white smoke emitted from the chimney chimney. I prompted more officials. Sistin Chapel.

After presenting his vision to a member who voted secretly like Catholic's Catholic Catora S, Samaranish said in an interview that he wanted to record his speech. After all, he said that it was a “speech in my life.”

Nevertheless, not only his father's name, but also in a room with his big portrait, Samaranglu, a member of the IOC top board since 2012, has not taken time to challenge the rules of the election. I said. Eventually he said, he opposed.

Under the regulations, the time of contact with voters is strictly limited. For more than two days in Lausanne, face -to -face meetings are strictly managed, and there are strict requirements to provide advanced notifications for such contact with IOC ethical agencies. Phone is allowed.

“Nonsense,” said Watanabe ORINARI, a long -term candidate in Japan, who led the world gymnastics, as the members were driven by the driver after the presentation. The next time they will be together on the eve of the voting.

Watanabe's idea is that changing the Olympics to a 24 -hour continent company and changing the IOC's name may be glacier than the corporate world. It is an innovative idea.

“Olympic movement is a powerful exercise,” said COE, who is most recognized among the candidates beyond the world of sports politics. “It should be a sports thinking leadership, you need to set the tone and style, and there is nothing like my Olympics.”

The winner manages an organization that creates about $ 8 billion per 4 years of Olympic cycle. But more importantly, this role is thought to be the top diplomat in sports, the bridge of the increasingly weaker world, and the great powers compete in the summer Olympics. Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin first called Thomas Bach after the 2013 election.

Most members have refused to provide an insight for those who are considering voting or to provide basic questions about what characteristics they want to see. Lewis media Obied, the representative of the Dominican Republic, offered a handshake with a smile as an answer to each of the three questions about the election.

Syed Shahid Ali, a IOC member Pakistani, said that he was an IOC member for almost 30 years, has been slowly eroded in exercise, and has hardly spoken to the members about important decisions. It was a regular criticism of the organization under Bach, a former German swordsman.

“The IOC is an autonomous body, but in a sense it's quite private,” said Ali, who opened the door to leave Monaco's Albert II in Lexus driven to the driver. I said there was. “Because it controls the world's sports, it's not so private, but from the internal mechanism of how it works -it is very private.”

Many of the candidates, including Samaransh and Coventory, are members of the IOC top board and have pledged to make a loud voice again. This includes the most important option of the organization and the right to speak. This is where the Olympics take place. Under Mr. Bach, the choice was almost lost, and the members evaluated only one priority candidate proposed by the IOC leadership.

“They would have been saying it earlier,” Ali said. “It shows the lack of courage or that it may be retrofit.

It is a difficult task to predict top runners because there are mainly inexplicable and diverse voters. There was a speculation that Coventory, who has recently become a second mother, has received the support of his incumbent Bach. “I think he is very fair for us,” said Coventory, who was concluded for 10 minutes per candidate after the pitch. “I don't think he's exercising for me.”

For the winner, the TO DO list, which is worthwhile in the United States, is expanding, and it is necessary to update with the largest television contract 10 years later. The National Share Bureau is in the more and more intense war with a global toxic regulatory authorities. And in the next summer Olympics -2028 Los Angeles, it is planned under the mercury Trump administration.

“These are a big task. If I succeed, they would be on my tray,” said Ko.

With the ensuring candidates, the candidates are now facing competition with the time for their lawsuits. Before leaving homes, companies, and palaces around the world, Samaranchu wanted to gather several straglers. He smiled, made a gesture like a throwing, and wanted to gather as much as dinner as dinner.