The Next IOC President

[AustralianFan]

3 hours ago, Bear said:

Congratulations to future IOC President Kirsty Coventry! 🙂

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Out of the seven, only three are capable of serving the maximum 12 years (one 8 year term + 4 year extension) due to the age limit:

1. HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein - can serve until 2037 (12 years)
2. Kirsty Coventry - can serve until 2057 (well past the 12 years)
3. David Lappartient - can serve until 2047 (well past the 12 years)

The other four would not be able to serve the full two terms, even with the age extensions:

1. Lord Sebastian Coe - can serve until 2030 (5 years)
2. Johan Eliasch - can serve until 2036 (11 years)
3. Juan Antonio Samaranch - can serve until 2033 (8 years)
4. Morinari Watanabe - can serve until 2033 (8 years)

Furthermore - the following candidates risk being removed from the presidency due to the IOC membership rules:

1. Lord Sebastian Coe - if his term as World Athletics President ends, his IOC membership ceases
2. Johan Eliasch - if his term as FIS President ends, his IOC membership ceases
3. David Lappartient - if his term as UCI President ends, his IOC membership ceases
4. Morinari Watanabe - if his term as FIG President ends, his IOC membership ceases

Taking the age limit and IOC membership rules into consideration, currently the two "safest" candidates are Feisal Al Hussein or Kirsty Coventry. If it goes down to either of the two, I'm inclined to believe that the IOC will go for Coventry. We shall see though once the campaigning starts...

Great assessment.  I hope Coventry gets the job.

[krow]

you would.

[Sir Rols]

3 hours ago, AustralianFan said:

I hope Coventry gets the job

Why?

what impresses you about her? What qualities to you think she has to be a great IOC president?

[krow]

on one hand, flourishing in both a mugabe and post-mugabe regime probably took some canny political acumen.

on the other, rolling over for dictators to obtain personal profit is not among the key attributes i would wish the leader of the olympic movement to possess. 

[Victorian]

I hope it is Coe. If not Coe then Coventry

[AustralianFan]

So the election of the new IOC President will be by secret ballot at the IOC Session this March in Athens.

Surely Coe has to step down as head of World Athletics if elected?  A conflict of interest surely cannot be allowed to occur if the IOC President is also head of one of the international sporting federations under the IOC umbrella.

Anither reason I much prefer Coventry over Coe.   

 

[Guilga]

19 hours ago, AustralianFan said:

Surely Coe has to step down as head of World Athletics if elected?

If he does that, he will lose his IOC membership...

[AustralianFan]

On 9/12/2024 at 4:53 AM, AustralianFan said:

Thankyou Tracey Holmes for clearly outlining all that needs to happen in order for Seb Coe to succeed Thomas Bach as IOC President:

 

 

1 hour ago, Guilga said:

If he does that, he will lose his IOC membership...

He would have to do some political gymnastics for sure, jumping through hoops:

1. Coe would need to resign as president of World Athletics,
2. Succeed in winning a vote to change his membership status (from IF President to individual member), and
3. upon reaching 70, seek approval for a once only four year extension. 

[FYI]

On 9/16/2024 at 8:37 PM, Sir Rols said:

Why?

what impresses you about her? What qualities to you think she has to be a great IOC president?

Looks like your valid question was never fully addressed.

[AustralianFan]

What’s on the plate for the next IOC President to do or oversee  ?

These are just some of the things on the To Do list:

2036 SOGs Host

• work with the Future Host Commmission, the IOC Executve Board and the IOC Session

Climate Change

• Impacts on both the scheduling and hosting of the Summer and Winter Games
• for example, possibly relaxing the current restrictions of the July/August hosting window to the cooler months
• decisions around if, when, where and how to have a rotating host pool for climate capable winter games hosts and how all that might work
• oversee what remains to do for the French Alps 2030 Games and working eith the Coordination Commission

Renew New USA Broadcast Deal

• in his first 12 months as President, Bach oversaw a $7.75 billion contract extension with NBC to broadcast the Olympics through to Brisbane 2032
• the next deal will need to start from SLC 2034 onwards

Russia

• the when and how and on Russia coming in from the cold
• World Athletics currently headed up by Coe entirely excludes Russia from competition

 

 

 

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[krow]

OK i know there's no one to talk about this with, but i can spare a moment for some dime store analysis because the woman fascinates me a bit — she's just a total cipher. or, more charitably, she's an unknown quantity, a blank slate that lets people project onto her whatever qualities they wish to see. so let's see if we can unpack the mystery of KC a little and i'll project on her what it is i see when i look at someone with as much soulless ambition as her.

after her admittedly brilliant swim career ended in 2016, she joined the IOC's athletes commission and chaired it from 2018-2021 when she became a full IOC member with a 32 year term. in 2021, bach appointed her chair of the coordination commission for brisbane (more on that later), a full-throated endorsement of her abilities. (he's also hedged on a few other women, though none of them are standing for election.)

fitting for a bach loyalist and a career politician, she appears to have few scruples or values beyond press release pablum, though we can hardly describe her as totally incompetent at her jobs or totally spineless. like any good politician, she's calculating to a fault and inoffensively middling whenever possible. the woman doesn't ask for a glass of water without getting her words checked by a global PR firm twice. but she has had an interesting career, which is instructive in itself.

she cut her teeth as an athlete's rights champion while chairing the commission, helping to implement a rights/responsibilities charter, and took some strong steps to amplify athlete voices...but she's never used her own voice to say anything particularly impactful. (except when she came down firmly against podium protests that is!)

one journalist at sports examiner describes her resume thus:

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To Coventry’s credit, her experience under pressure – something she was already used to as a politician in her home country – was brilliantly displayed in her leadership within the Athletes’ Commission, in news conferences and private meetings around the review of the IOC’s protest guidelines in Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter. She led a months-long process that sampled worldwide opinions, engaged thousands of athletes in direct polling and then delivered a set of recommendations which surprised everyone by actually enlarging the in-Games opportunity for “athlete expression” during pre-event introductions. 

For whatever the reasons, the expected outpouring of protests in Tokyo didn’t happen. Give Coventry credit for a calm demeanor, willingness to tackle what appeared to be a no-win situation and a result which was more liberal than expected but retained the core dignity around the Games ceremonies.

good politicians always have a wedge issue, and somewhere along the way a six-figure PR consultant came to a stunning and profitable realization: KC is a woman! so, naturally women's rights became a vague interest, though it's nothing you could describe as feminism, and you can just forget about anything more political than that. (the linked op-ed is mainly just solipsistic complaints at how difficult she, KC, has had it career-wise as a woman).

as an athlete, she never considered speaking out against human rights violations in zimbabwe or the mugabe regime because she valued her career too much. (forgive the over reliance on ITG reporting, they're the only ones who cover her as a beat.)

politicians must also, at least once in their lives, show actual leadership capability, mostly so they can refer to it anytime someone asks them for an example of actual leadership capability. 

in KC's case, she's gone to the mat against corruption/sexual harassment in her country's football association, succeeding in getting them banned by FIFA briefly. a fiery speech in parliament made her a few enemies, but like any good careerist, she only really cares about staying in the good graces of no. 1.

no, not thomas bach. we're talking zimbabwe president, emmerson mnangagwa.

you won't hear a word from her against his checkered regime: in fact, el presidente likes her so much, he reappointed her last year to cabinet position (minister of youth and sports) that she's held since 2019. in 2020, he reallocated a mugabe farm to her and her husband (nice to have friends in high places, kirsty!), a move made her a few enemies too, but mainly among opposition groups who wouldn't be inclined toward a gov't cabinet member in the first place. she and her husband dismissed it as a non story.

she's married and has a kid, which is nice i guess, but i really only mention this to gossip shamelessly about her layabout husband, tyrone seward. we don't know much about him, except that he nearly drowned as a child and then went on to manage kirsty's SWIMMING CAREER lmao before paying her father a dowry to marry her. in fact, his entire career has been entirely devoted to gripping kirsty's coattails with all his might and refusing to let go. pretty good ROI for those cows and chickens if you ask me. (that's not like african racism or anything, the dowry was literally cows and chickens). take a look at this one sentence biography: "Tyrone Seward is a Zimbabwean and co-founder of the Kirsty Coventry Academy for swimming." oh, work! did someone say real househusbands of harare? 

at bach's behest, KC has most recently moved into an executive "coordination" role between the IOC and OG/YOG hosts and is knee-deep in pulling off both dakar and brisbane, making sure the venues plans come to fruition and they deliver on their promises — so good luck to her!! half of me wonders if she's bit off more than she can chew with that one and is looking for a promotion not only as the logical progression of her manic, sociopathic type A ambition, but also to be able to delegate the actual work of overseeing the olympic games and focus her energies on the equally important presidential tasks of social climbing with the royal families of the world and flipping a coin to see if the IOC cares about doping violations this week.

so, what's the upshot: would KC make a good IOC president? anything's possible, i suppose. you don't win individual olympic gold by accident (except you, steven!) and she could easily earn a third one in speed climbing if the course were an IOC career. but it troubles me that KC doesn't seem to stand for anything of consequence...

she's "for" women's equality but she's happy to blind eye human rights abuses. she can denounce corruption, but only when her overlords permit it. she's press release progressive, but no one's accusing her of going "woke." she's charitable, but in true noblesse oblige, only in ways that personally benefit her. 

and most importantly, may we all be blessed to find someone to love us as much as KC loves a dictatorial regime — a good skillset if she somehow has to navigate the nightmare hellscape of xi, putin, trump and the french right at once.

in short, she may be perfectly suited for this particular global political moment, leading a feckless IOC that resents a changing world too much to adapt to it. she's perfectly bachian — with a few extra medals.

it's disappointing for those of us hoping for greater change that her candidature is as strong as it is. we could probably do worse, but we could almost certainly do a whole lot better.  

[StefanMUC]

Wow, that’s a great summary (or rather: thesis) of KC! 

[AustralianFan]

Kirsty Civentry’s record and experience as an athlete, sports and IOC adinistration is long and very impressive.

Education - Kirsty Coventry

• Bachelor of Human Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management with a minor in Business from Auburn University (United States of America)

Sports Career - Kirsty Coventry

• Aquatics (swimming: backstroke and individual medley)
• Olympic Games: gold medals in 2004 and 2008 (200m backstroke); silver medals in 2004 (100m backstroke) and in 2008 (200m individual medley, 400m individual medley and 100m backstroke); bronze medal in 2004 (200m individual medley); competed in 2000 and 2016
• World Championships: gold medals in 2005 (100m and 200m backstroke) and in 2009 (200m backstroke); silver medals in 2005 (200m and 400m individual medley), in 2007 (200m backstroke and 200m individual medley) and in 2009 (400m individual medley)
• World Cups: silver medal in 2010 (200m individual medley) and bronze medals in 2010 (200m backstroke and 200m individual medley)
• 11th African Games Brazzaville 2015: gold medal (200m backstroke, 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke)

Sports Administrstion - Kirsty Coventry

• Member of the Zimbabwe National Olympic Committee (NOC 2013-);
• Vice President of the Zimbabwe National Olympic Committee (2017-2018, stepped down after Government Appointment);
• IOC Athlete Representative on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (2012-2021);
• Member of the WADA's Athlete Committee (2014-2021);
• Vice-president of the International Surfing Association (ISA) (2016-); FINA Athlete Committee Member (2017-);
• Minister of Sport in Zimbabwe (2018-); Founder of KCA Swim Academy, which focuses on learning to swim and water safety for children (2016-);
• Co-Founder of HEROES, a not-for-profit organisation that uses sport to deliver soft skills to children aged 6yrs-13yrs in underprivileged areas; provides motivational talks and clinics for schools and developing athletes around the world; advisor to groups, businesses, foundations and individuals interested in developing athletes' skills and careers.

IOC history - Kirsty Coventry

• Member of the IOC Executive Board (2018-2021 in her capacity as Chair of the Athletes’ Commission);
• currently an Individual Member of the IOC Executive Board since 2023,
• Member of the Athletes Commission (2013-2021),
• Chair of the Athletes' Commission (2018-2021);
• Chair of the Coordination Commission for the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 (2018-);
• Chair of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXV Olympiad Brisbane 2032 since 2021,
•  Member of the following IOC Commissions:  Coordination for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 (2014-2021), Olympic Solidarity (2014 onwards), Olympic Channel (2015-2018), Evaluation for the Games of XXXIII Olympiad in 2024 (2016-2017), Public Affairs and Social Development through Sport (2016-2018), Public Affairs and Corporate Communications (2022-), Evaluation for the Youth Olympic Games 2022 (2018); Member of the Board of directors of Olympic Channel Services S.A., Switzerland (2018-2021) Finance (2023 onwards.

[AustralianFan]

2 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

Kirsty Civentry’s record and experience as an athlete, sports and IOC adinistration is long and very impressive.

Education - Kirsty Coventry

• Bachelor of Human Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management with a minor in Business from Auburn University (United States of America)

Sports Career - Kirsty Coventry

• Aquatics (swimming: backstroke and individual medley)
• Olympic Games: gold medals in 2004 and 2008 (200m backstroke); silver medals in 2004 (100m backstroke) and in 2008 (200m individual medley, 400m individual medley and 100m backstroke); bronze medal in 2004 (200m individual medley); competed in 2000 and 2016
• World Championships: gold medals in 2005 (100m and 200m backstroke) and in 2009 (200m backstroke); silver medals in 2005 (200m and 400m individual medley), in 2007 (200m backstroke and 200m individual medley) and in 2009 (400m individual medley)
• World Cups: silver medal in 2010 (200m individual medley) and bronze medals in 2010 (200m backstroke and 200m individual medley)
• 11th African Games Brazzaville 2015: gold medal (200m backstroke, 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke)

Sports Administrstion - Kirsty Coventry

• Member of the Zimbabwe National Olympic Committee (NOC 2013-);
• Vice President of the Zimbabwe National Olympic Committee (2017-2018, stepped down after Government Appointment);
• IOC Athlete Representative on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (2012-2021);
• Member of the WADA's Athlete Committee (2014-2021);
• Vice-president of the International Surfing Association (ISA) (2016-); FINA Athlete Committee Member (2017-);
• Minister of Sport in Zimbabwe (2018-); Founder of KCA Swim Academy, which focuses on learning to swim and water safety for children (2016-);
• Co-Founder of HEROES, a not-for-profit organisation that uses sport to deliver soft skills to children aged 6yrs-13yrs in underprivileged areas; provides motivational talks and clinics for schools and developing athletes around the world; advisor to groups, businesses, foundations and individuals interested in developing athletes' skills and careers.

IOC history - Kirsty Coventry

• Member of the IOC Executive Board (2018-2021 in her capacity as Chair of the Athletes’ Commission);
• currently an Individual Member of the IOC Executive Board since 2023,
• Member of the Athletes Commission (2013-2021),
• Chair of the Athletes' Commission (2018-2021);
• Chair of the Coordination Commission for the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 (2018-);
• Chair of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXV Olympiad Brisbane 2032 since 2021,
•  Member of the following IOC Commissions:  Coordination for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 (2014-2021), Olympic Solidarity (2014 onwards), Olympic Channel (2015-2018), Evaluation for the Games of XXXIII Olympiad in 2024 (2016-2017), Public Affairs and Social Development through Sport (2016-2018), Public Affairs and Corporate Communications (2022-), Evaluation for the Youth Olympic Games 2022 (2018); Member of the Board of directors of Olympic Channel Services S.A., Switzerland (2018-2021) Finance (2023 onwards.

** Kirsty Coventry’s Candidature File for election as the new IOC President is listed on the IOC website as “coming soon”,  as it is for all of the other 6 candidates, including Coe.

[yoshi]

Sounds like she'd basically be Medvedev to Bach's P*tin. Even if she doesn't go the whole hog by being just a seat warmer while Bach resets the term limits, there'd certainly be a suspicion that Bach is still wielding the actual power when she's clearly that close & that heavily favoured by Bach. It doesn't sound from @krow report like she's especially independent or would be much of a change sadly. I certainly can't see her releasing the Executive grip on the "bid" process...

[AustralianFan]

11 hours ago, yoshi said:

Sounds like she'd basically be Medvedev to Bach's P*tin. Even if she doesn't go the whole hog by being just a seat warmer while Bach resets the term limits, there'd certainly be a suspicion that Bach is still wielding the actual power when she's clearly that close & that heavily favoured by Bach. It doesn't sound from @krow report like she's especially independent or would be much of a change sadly. I certainly can't see her releasing the Executive grip on the "bid" process...

The “krow report”?    That’s pure speculation by a keyboard warrior individual on gamesbids.com

The official IOC Candidature Files of Coventry, Coe and all the candidates has not yet been released.  They will be more informative and should contain the pitch of each candidate re why they should be elected as the new IOC President.

It remains to be seen if these will be released to the public on the above IOC website before or after the election of the new IOC President.

[krow]

28 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

The “krow report”?    That’s pure speculation by a keyboard warrior individual on gamesbids.com

 

obviously it's speculative, i literally say that in the first paragraph.

but it's backed with plenty of links on her career you can read up on. if you can take anything from it, great. if not, idc.

she seems like a good deputy enforcer for entrenched power, but i don't see much natural leadership capability. i don't see that x factor, except as an athlete. even there, she's won gold, but she took more silvers. 

[AustralianFan]

10 minutes ago, krow said:

obviously it's speculative, i literally say that in the first paragraph.

but it's backed with plenty of links on her career you can read up on. if you can take anything from it, great. if not, idc.

she seems like a good deputy enforcer for entrenched power, but i don't see much natural leadership capability. i don't see that x factor, except as an athlete. even there, she's won gold, but she took more silvers. 

I read all that and my opinion is just from a behind a keyboard too.  

If Coventry was running for say political office like the US Presidential election, then yes, I would search and ask what her stance was on various issues and the down-trodden and social injustices, etc.  That’s not to say Coventry or Coe or the other candidates do not have strong personal views about these.

Do we see lots of CNN interviews with any of the IOC Presidential Candidates or debates or town halls? No we don’t so as to maintain the “IOC’s veil of neutrality”.

Becoming and being the IOC President is quite the opposite to running for political office where you very publicly try and beat your opponent and then skewer them while highlight your own strongly held emotional views in a highly visible way.  Look at Harris vs Trump, it’s a frenzy across all media platforms and tv networks.

Being an IOC Member and especially running to be IOC President I suggest is much closer to the “politcal neutrality” to say becoming Secretary-General of the United Nations.  Yes I know they’re not the same but the IOC Presidency is certainly closer to the head of the UN that than it is say running for pure political office like the US Presidential election.

The role of the IOC President is to steer a steady course and try not to choose a political side. For example, Coventry bringing Russia back into the Olympic family or not has to be on the basis of meeting the strict re-entry requirements in meeting the Olympic Charter and laid out by the IOC to Russia - not because she might persnally hate Putin and his craziness.

I think it will come down to Coventry vs Coe in the final secret ballot and my money’s on Coventry who I think is a better candidate than all the rest.

 

[AustralianFan]

37 minutes ago, krow said:

obviously it's speculative, i literally say that in the first paragraph.

but it's backed with plenty of links on her career you can read up on. if you can take anything from it, great. if not, idc.

she seems like a good deputy enforcer for entrenched power, but i don't see much natural leadership capability. i don't see that x factor, except as an athlete. even there, she's won gold, but she took more silvers. 

 

2 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

I read all that and my opinion is just from a behind a keyboard too.  

If Coventry was running for say political office like the US Presidential election, then yes, I would search and ask what her stance was on various issues and the down-trodden and social injustices, etc.  That’s not to say Coventry or Coe or the other candidates do not have strong personal views about these.

Do we see lots of CNN interviews with any of the IOC Presidential Candidates or debates or town halls? No we don’t so as to maintain the “IOC’s veil of neutrality”.

Becoming and being the IOC President is quite the opposite to running for political office where you very publicly try and beat your opponent and then skewer them while highlight your own strongly held emotional views in a highly visible way.  Look at Harris vs Trump, it’s a frenzy across all media platforms and tv networks.

Being an IOC Member and especially running to be IOC President I suggest is much closer to the “politcal neutrality” to say becoming Secretary-General of the United Nations.  Yes I know they’re not the same but the IOC Presidency is certainly closer to the head of the UN that than it is say running for pure political office like the US Presidential election.

The role of the IOC President is to steer a steady course and try not to choose a political side. For example, Coventry bringing Russia back into the Olympic family or not has to be on the basis of meeting the strict re-entry requirements in meeting the Olympic Charter and laid out by the IOC to Russia - not because she might persnally hate Putin and his craziness.

I think it will come down to Coventry vs Coe in the final secret ballot and my money’s on Coventry who I think is a better candidate than all the rest.

 

I know we don’t often see eye to eye, but I do appreciate and commend you on your balanced and well thought out views you have put forward in this particular discussion.

[sebastien1214]

1 hour ago, AustralianFan said:

The “krow report”?    That’s pure speculation by a keyboard warrior individual on gamesbids.com

Well, he at least has the merit of having provided a reasoned opinion (and for my part I learned a lot from it), while on your side, your messages sometimes resemble to ChatGPT prompts, or in any case a simple repetition of what these people say/boast without providing a critical analysis. In French, we would call this journalisme de préfecture.

16 minutes ago, AustralianFan said:

Becoming and being the IOC President is quite the opposite to running for political office where you very publicly try and beat your opponent and then skewer them while highlight your own strongly held emotional views in a highly visible way.  Look at Harris vs Trump, it’s a frenzy across all media platforms and tv networks.

Being an IOC Member and especially running to be IOC President I suggest is much closer to the “politcal neutrality” to say becoming Secretary-General of the United Nations.  Yes I know they’re not the same but the IOC Presidency is certainly closer to the head of the UN that than it is say running for pure political office like the US Presidential election.

 

This is a very reductive vision of what politics is. In this case, "where you very publicly try and beat your opponent" as you say (I quote you), it is only a contextual ritual of a particular type of political process; it is not because this ritual is not necessarily present elsewhere that there is no political struggle elsewhere.

The IOC President is obviously an eminently political role for the simple reason that he has control over an important power on a global scale; sporting soft-power in this case, and that it is for many countries an important priority in their foreign policy. (same observation for FIFA). So there is obviously a lot of campaigning going on right now between the candidates, and if we don't see much of it publicly, well... that's simply because the IOC "electorate" is by definition very small, it's not like there are billions of citizens around the world voting for the IOC President. So there's no point in campaigning in a public and visible way, but don't worry that the phones of the people involved are heating up more than usual, and that their schedules are filling up faster than usual.

[AustralianFan]

22 minutes ago, sebastien1214 said:

So there is obviously a lot of campaigning going on right now between the candidates, and if we don't see much of it publicly, well... that's simply because the IOC "electorate" is by definition very small, it's not like there are billions of citizens around the world voting for the IOC President. So there's no point in campaigning in a public and visible way, but don't worry that the phones of the people involved are heating up more than usual, and that their schedules are filling up faster than usual.

It has nothing to do with the size of the IOC electorate as to why there is no highly visible, razamatazz campaigning.   It’s because the IOC has never done any of their elections for high office that wzy, always preferring to keep campaiging and lobbying Presidential elections largely behind closed doors.  Yes, I agree with you the lobbying phone calls and Teams meetiings by each candidate are behind closed doors must surely certainly ramping up, running hot as you said.

As I said, I’m looking forward to reading the Candidature Files when released by the IOC because in that I expect will be that candidate’s personal pitch as to why each thinks they should be IOC President.

I’ve not read one of thse Candidature Files before so looking forward to it.  However, its entirely possible the IOC won’t release these to us until after Bach’s successor is elected. 

 

[cfm Jeremie]

9 hours ago, AustralianFan said:

I’ve not read one of thse Candidature Files before so looking forward to it.  However, its entirely possible the IOC won’t release these to us until after Bach’s successor is elected. 

 

For someone who seems to be spending his life reading the IOC website it is difficult to understand how you have missed the fact that the «candidature document » will be made public (I would expect at the latest after the briefing by the candidates to the IOC members in January).

[AustralianFan]

2 hours ago, cfm Jeremie said:

the «candidature document » will be made public (I would expect at the latest after the briefing by the candidates to the IOC members in January).

You seem to have missed that I was asking when the Candidature Files on each candidate would be released given that each Candidate’s IOC Bio is currently marked with words “coming soon” against their  ‘Candidature File’ label.

So when is soon?  You are guessing just as much as me re when that will be.

Your guess is January, ….. but you don’t actually know this for sure.   

I don’t know myself when it will be, but I wouldn’t at all be suprised if it is not until after the election of the new President.  But, I certainly want to read them sooner if they are released before then.

[BigVic]

On 9/20/2024 at 11:29 AM, AustralianFan said:

Climate Change

• Impacts on both the scheduling and hosting of the Summer and Winter Games
• for example, possibly relaxing the current restrictions of the July/August hosting window to the cooler months
• decisions around if, when, where and how to have a rotating host pool for climate capable winter games hosts and how all that might work
• oversee what remains to do for the French Alps 2030 Games and working eith the Coordination Commission

The Summer Olympics and Paralympics moved to the cooler months to combat climate change rather than in July/August  

[AustralianFan]

3 minutes ago, BigVic said:

The Summer Olympics and Paralympics moved to the cooler months to combat climate change rather than in July/August  

They’re thinking about it,

but the IOC  have not yet allowed hosting outside July/August.

Watch  this space in next couple of years for a formal announcement of the relaxation of these hosting window rules