Morinari Watanabe, candidate for IOC presidency, proposes Olympics spread simultaneously across 5 continents

If elected, Morinari Watanabe would become the first Asian president of the IOC. He is currently an outsider in the electoral battle, which will be decided from March 18 to 21 by the 144th session of the IOC meeting in Greece. Facing him, six candidates: the Frenchman David Lappartient, boss of world cycling, those of athletics and skiing, the Briton Sebastian Coe and the Swedish-British Johann Eliasch, and three members of the IOC executive commission (Prince Jordanian Faisal al-Hussein, the Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, son of the former leader of the IOC from 1980 to 2001, and the former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry).