Thomas Bach will resign as president of the IOC after next June 23

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has accepted on Wednesday the official resignation of its president Thomas Bach as a member of the Executive Board, and that will have an effect from June 23, being relieved in power by a new leader that He will choose on March 20 in Costa Navarino (Greece).

Bach presented this resignation this week to the Executive Board, after having announced months ago at the 142nd session of the COI of Paris “that would not seek an extension of its presidency despite the claims of the members of the IOC to do so,” according to the IOC on its website.

In this sense, the press release recalled that Bach “was elected on September 10, 2013 as ninth president of the IOC”, then replacing the Belgian leader Jacques Rogge, and also that “he was re -elected for a second four -year term on 10 years on 10 March 2021 “.

Now he will choose to replace the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, 65 -year -old businessman and son of the late Juan Antonio Samaranch Torelló, who presided over the IOC between 1980 and 2001. Other candidates are the British Sebastian Coe, the Zimbabuense Kirsty Coventry, the French David Lapartientient , the Japanese Morinari Watanabe, the Swedish Johan Eliasch and The Jordanian Prince Feisal Al-Hussein.

All of them had on January 30, during a meeting held in Lausana (Switzerland), a quarter of an hour to explain the main lines of their program to the members of the IOC, following an organized event behind closed doors at the headquarters of the headquarters Olympic organism and without answering questions, since they were prohibited in the campaign.