With just over three months until the election, the IOC presidential campaign is one of a series of hot-button issues stirring up the Olympic movement.
Rarely have so many critical questions and decisions come together at the same time — the president’s race, the bidding for the 2020 Olympics, the fate of wrestling and proposed news sports, the role and future of the World Anti-Doping Agency, muscle-flexing by various power brokers and kingmakers.
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Six candidates are in the running to succeed Jacques Rogge, who steps down in September after 12 years in office.
Rogge tells The Associated Press “there’s a lot of politically loaded decisions that will have occurred in the last six months of my mandate.”
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