The IOC members are in Lausanne for today’s (30 January) 143rd Extraordinary IOC Session at the Olympic House, during which the IOC presidential candidates will deliver their presentations ( THE ...
The two-time Olympic gold medallist -- she has seven medals in all -- has been sports minister of the southern African nation since 2019 and was re-appointed in 2023 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Coe announced his intention to stand for election last September, after current president Thomas Bach confirmed at the end of last summer’s Olympic Games that he would not seek a further term.
Of the seven candidates running to be the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch is something of an outlier. The 62-year-old ...