The head of the Paris Olympic organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, should become a member of the IOC again in March. This after a first mandate of eight years, on a proposal on Tuesday from the Lausanne body.
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“By correspondence”, the executive board “approved the candidacy” of the triple Olympic canoe champion, which will be submitted to the vote of the other members during the 144th session of the IOC scheduled in Greece from March 18 to 21, specifies a press release.
The outcome of the vote is in little doubt, since the session systematically ratifies the proposals of the executive board, and the boss of the last Games should return to the IOC as an “independent individual member”, according to the same source.
He had already served on the Athletes’ Commission between 2013 and 2021, alongside former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry, who is among the seven candidates to succeed IOC President Thomas Bach during the same March session. .
Tony Estanguet, who officially concluded his Parisian mission in December with the announcement of a budget with a slight surplus, had not revealed any ambitions for the future, other than to take “a vacation” and “a little perspective “.
The 46-year-old from Palois, Olympic champion in C1 slalom at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the Athens Olympics in 2024 and the London Olympics in 2012, is the only French athlete with Teddy Riner to have won three individual titles at three different Olympics .
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