No transparency please, we’re the IOC: Coe makes his pitch for world sport’s top job
Briton among the seven candidates gathered in Lausanne for an election so secretive and strange it would make a Vatican cardinal wince
It sounds like a brain stumper from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. Which major 2025 election is being fought over by several presidents, a vice-president, a prince, a lord, and a politician from Zimbabwe? And, for good measure, could be won for the first time by someone from Britain?
The answer can be found in Lausanne, where the seven candidates hoping to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have gathered to make their one and only direct pitch – via a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation – for the biggest job in global sport.
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