Bach to step down as Olympic chief next year

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach says he intends to guidelines down aft nan extremity of his 2nd word adjacent year.

The German lawyer, who has been successful complaint since 2013, amazed members astatine a convention during nan Paris Games, saying he would not proceed contempt being asked to.

An hold would person required a alteration successful nan Olympic charter that limits nan president to a maximum of 12 years - a first eight-year word and a 2nd four-year term, that he himself had helped draft.

"After 12 years successful nan agency of IOC president our organisation is champion served pinch a alteration successful leadership. New times are calling for caller leaders," he said successful an affectional speech.

The caller IOC president will beryllium elected successful March 2025 astatine a convention successful ancient Olympia and will return complete successful June of that year, Bach said.

No personnel has yet openly campaigned to win him.

An Olympic fencing champion successful 1976 who joined nan Olympic assemblage arsenic a personnel successful 1991, Bach has ruled firmly since taking complete from his predecessor Jacques Rogge 11 years ago.

He introduced sweeping reforms for nan faster preamble of sports onto nan Olympic programme, and to nan bidding process and staging of nan Games, reducing wide costs and making nan arena much charismatic to imaginable campaigner cities.