Since Johan Eliasch leads the Ski World Association, there has been a constant argument. Now a civil lawsuit makes serious allegations to the billionaire. Eliasch wants to “defend himself robustly” – but the resentment over him grows.
For someone who has some of the most important minutes of his sports policy career in front of him, this man looks strangely absent. He now has ten minutes to explain to a circle of reporters in Lausanne on Thursday, which benefits he would do if the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) choose to choose the head of their movement in March. But Johan Eliasch, one of seven candidates who have previously introduced themselves to the ladies and gentlemen of the Olympic Rings, sounds like one who is not even the lord of his words. When a reporter asks him which fields he would first order as IOC president, he gets stumbling, paused, then repeats what he had said seconds earlier. Even when he speaks of the “magic of sport” and the “hope, yes hope” that you need more in a split world than ever, he doesn’t sound as if there was too much hope in it.