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Podcast: Unofficial Partner Podcast
Episode: UP352 Olympic Succession: Bach's overtures and that Seb Coe rumour
Description: At the recent IOC session in Mumbai a number of IOC members called for IOC President Thomas Bach to go another term in the job.This would give Bach a further four years. The optics aren’t great. It’s all a bit North Korea.Jens Sejer Andersen of Play the Game wrote this: Eight-to-12-year term limits for Presidents to prevent accumulation of power are the single most important principle of governance reforms across Olympic sports. If Thomas Bach’s term is extended, hundreds of sports Presidents at the national and international level will be ins...