Thomas Bach, an Olympic fencing gold medal winner from Germany was elected IOC President today replacing outgoing IOC President Jacque Rogge of Belgium. Bach will serve at least an 8 year term with the option for another 4 year term.
Bach was the IOC Vice President and head of the German Olympic Committee. He is also an attorney. Bach is the 9th IOC President and the 8th European to hold the job. The only American to hold the job was Avery Brundage who ran the IOC from 1952-1972.
Bach received 49 votes in the second round to win the IOC Presidency. Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico finished second with 29 votes.
Ng Ser Miang of Singapore received six votes, Denis Oswald of Switzerland five votes and Sergei Bubka of Ukraine four votes. C.K. Wu of Taiwan was eliminated in the first round after an initial tie with Ng.
Bach's term begins Immediately.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Olympic updates,,, IOC selects Tokyo as 2020 summer games host city and reinstates Wrestling back into 2020 games
The IOC is currently having their session in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On Saturday, Sept. 7 the IOC chose Tokyo, Japan as host of the 2020 summer games.
Tokyo was chosen over Madrid, Spain and Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul and Madrid tied for second place behind Tokyo in first round voting. A tie-breaker vote was cast and Madrid was eliminated. In the second round of IOC voting Tokyo was named the host city of the 2020 summer games and was chosen over Istanbul. Tokyo lasted hosted the games in 1964.
On Sunday, Sept. 8 the IOC chose Wrestling over Baseball/Softball and Squash. Wrestling will be included in the 2020 and 2024 summer games as part of 25 core sports and 3 additional sports. Golf and Rugby were added to the 2016 and 2020 summer games as voted on by the IOC. The 25 core sports concept was adopted in 2007.
According to the IOC, wrestling had made the changes necessary to be voted back in to the 2020 summer games which included having more women compete, appointing more women to leadership positions within wrestling and making rule changes easier to understand and more exciting.
Next up: A new IOC President will be chosen.
On Saturday, Sept. 7 the IOC chose Tokyo, Japan as host of the 2020 summer games.
Tokyo was chosen over Madrid, Spain and Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul and Madrid tied for second place behind Tokyo in first round voting. A tie-breaker vote was cast and Madrid was eliminated. In the second round of IOC voting Tokyo was named the host city of the 2020 summer games and was chosen over Istanbul. Tokyo lasted hosted the games in 1964.
On Sunday, Sept. 8 the IOC chose Wrestling over Baseball/Softball and Squash. Wrestling will be included in the 2020 and 2024 summer games as part of 25 core sports and 3 additional sports. Golf and Rugby were added to the 2016 and 2020 summer games as voted on by the IOC. The 25 core sports concept was adopted in 2007.
According to the IOC, wrestling had made the changes necessary to be voted back in to the 2020 summer games which included having more women compete, appointing more women to leadership positions within wrestling and making rule changes easier to understand and more exciting.
Next up: A new IOC President will be chosen.
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