DOHA (Qatar): Thomas Bach will be re-elected unopposed for a second term as Olympic chief at the 137th International Olympic Committee (IOC) virtual session in Lausanne, Switzerland, from Wednesday to Friday.
The Congress will be held just five months before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, and less than a year from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Bach, who won Olympic fencing gold for West Germany in the team foil in 1976 and has been an IOC member since 1991.
The 67-year-old German’s second mandate as president of the IOC promises to be as eventful or turbulent.
The most pressing agenda item at the start of his new four-year term, after an opening eight years that saw him deal with, among other things, the problem-laden 2014 Sochi and 2016 Rio Games, state-sponsored Russian doping and the deadly wave of coronavirus, is the Tokyo Olympics.
The IOC took the decision to postpone the 2020 Games for a year to July 23-August 8 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
