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Thomas Bach was re-elected for a further four-year time period as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday.
At the 137th IOC Session held just about, the 67-year-old German obtained 93 ‘sure’ and 1 ‘no’ vote from the 94 legitimate votes.
Bach, who gained gold with the West German foil fencing workforce on the Olympic Games Montreal in 1976, was elected as IOC President on the IOC Session in 2013 in Buenos Aires for a primary eight-year time period. This time period will end on the closing day of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on August 8 this 12 months, as determined by the IOC Executive Board.
His second time period as IOC President will begin instantly after, and can conclude in 2025.
“Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for this overwhelming vote of confidence and trust. For me, this is even more overwhelming considering the many reforms and the many difficult decisions we had to take, which affected all of us,” Bach mentioned after his re-election, in an IOC launch.
As an athlete, Bach was a world-class fencer, profitable the Olympic gold medal, but additionally two gold medals with the West German foil fencing workforce on the World Championships in Montreal in 1976 and in Buenos Aires in 1977. He was a founding member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission in 1981, on which he remained till 1988.
In 1991, he grew to become an IOC Member and sat on the IOC Executive Board between 1996 and 2013. He served as IOC Vice-President from 2000 to 2004, 2006 to 2010 and from 2010 till his election as IOC President in September 2013.
