And the third vote at the IOC meetings also went the way of the favourite!
No clear majority in the first round led to the elimination of the sixth place, but in the second round Thomas Bach composed a clear majority with 49 votes to the combined total of 44 for the remaining candidates.
Last of those candidates with just 4 votes was Sergei Bubka (one time pole vaulter and now model for bespoke suits) which now leaves him clear to challenge for the IAAF Presidency in 2015.
Out of the gate Bach, himself a Gold medalist fencer in 1976, will have his hands full trying to ensure a smooth delivery of the Sochi Winter Games beset by delays, budget over runs, the possibility of no snow and Games Ambassadors with little notion of the civil rights enjoyed by the "free" world. After that he hardly gets a breather, as the next Summer Games in Rio are suffering many of the same problems plus general civil unrest by Brasilians over expenditure on the Games. Bach should get a good idea what faces him after the FIFA World Cup next summer!
Also among the nine newly elected Council Members is the well respected Paul Tergat, giving the main decision making body a total of 112 members.
No clear majority in the first round led to the elimination of the sixth place, but in the second round Thomas Bach composed a clear majority with 49 votes to the combined total of 44 for the remaining candidates.
Last of those candidates with just 4 votes was Sergei Bubka (one time pole vaulter and now model for bespoke suits) which now leaves him clear to challenge for the IAAF Presidency in 2015.
Out of the gate Bach, himself a Gold medalist fencer in 1976, will have his hands full trying to ensure a smooth delivery of the Sochi Winter Games beset by delays, budget over runs, the possibility of no snow and Games Ambassadors with little notion of the civil rights enjoyed by the "free" world. After that he hardly gets a breather, as the next Summer Games in Rio are suffering many of the same problems plus general civil unrest by Brasilians over expenditure on the Games. Bach should get a good idea what faces him after the FIFA World Cup next summer!
Also among the nine newly elected Council Members is the well respected Paul Tergat, giving the main decision making body a total of 112 members.
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