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Outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach faced mammoth challenges

  • The state-sponsored doping scandal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and Russia breaking the Olympic Truce twice, in 2014 and 2022, taxed Bach’s patience and that of the IOC movement
  • Payne: He will go down as one of the three great IOC presidents along with Pierre de Coubertin and Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Robertson praises Bach for handing over to Coventry an IOC “in an extremely robust financial position”
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Olympic leader Bach got 10 percent raise in 2024 payment that trails far behind soccer’s elected leaders

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IOC names outgoing boss Bach as honorary president for life

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Coe among seven candidates to succeed Bach as IOC president

By AFP ·

Olympics chief Thomas Bach says will not seek third term

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IOC says ‘aggressive’ Russia criticism a ‘new low’

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