Sebastian Coe hits the bell at the March 20th vote for IOC president
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Voting commences @0800 EST today.
Will a blistering finish from The Right Honourable Coe destroy all comers in the final round?
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Hope so. And hopefully the new head of World Athletics will finally ban Kenya, although more likely be even more lenient.
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Yes! Let's hope the murky Lord finally leaves WA, and we get an incorrupt replacement who's interested in clean sport!
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Finally, WA is going to be cleaned up! We don't trust Coe.
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Voting ends after first round. A new president has been elected!
...But we don't know who yet. 30 min recess before the results are announced
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Coevett wrote:
Hope so. And hopefully the new head of World Athletics will finally ban Kenya, although more likely be even more lenient.
Ban Oklahoma State, too.
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Coe lost
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Coe indeed loses. The new IOC president is Kirsty Coventry.
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Great that Coe lost. This means that British dopers won't be protected.
Quickly, test the Rio samples before they expire!
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Draintheswamp wrote:
Great that Coe lost. This means that British dopers won't be protected.
Quickly, test the Rio samples before they expire!
This is quite the take. By all accounts, Coe is just about the LEAST corrupt IOC member around. In fact, his efforts towards fair play as head of World Athletics are known to have ruffled IOC feathers, and could be the reason he lost.
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ioc abc's wrote:
Draintheswamp wrote:
Great that Coe lost. This means that British dopers won't be protected.
Quickly, test the Rio samples before they expire!
This is quite the take. By all accounts, Coe is just about the LEAST corrupt IOC member around. In fact, his efforts towards fair play as head of World Athletics are known to have ruffled IOC feathers, and could be the reason he lost.
"least corrupt"? Do you really think everybody else is worse? Scary thought, tbh.
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Super.
We get Thomas Bach’s hand picked successor. The corruption continues!
African (albeit a white African), woman, sports minister in a regime known for oppression and internal corruption. It’s almost the perfect marriage of DEI + status quo cronyism.
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Coevett wrote:
Hope so. And hopefully the new head of World Athletics will finally ban Kenya, although more likely be even more lenient.
Rest assured, Coventry will address your Kenya concerns. The new IOC president has "zero tolerance for doping, corruption and unethical behaviour." She says so right here in her candidature document.
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know thy history wrote:
ioc abc's wrote:
This is quite the take. By all accounts, Coe is just about the LEAST corrupt IOC member around. In fact, his efforts towards fair play as head of World Athletics are known to have ruffled IOC feathers, and could be the reason he lost.
"least corrupt"? Do you really think everybody else is worse? Scary thought, tbh.
No worries mates, the swimmer from Zimbabwe will clean things up. Anti-corruption efforts surè to benefit from youthful African leadership.
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know thy history wrote:
ioc abc's wrote:
This is quite the take. By all accounts, Coe is just about the LEAST corrupt IOC member around. In fact, his efforts towards fair play as head of World Athletics are known to have ruffled IOC feathers, and could be the reason he lost.
"least corrupt"? Do you really think everybody else is worse? Scary thought, tbh.
Well, isn't the 'corrupt' smear against Coe regarding the fact that he knew Diack was dodgy but didn't say anything (probably realizing that if he spoke up, his own chance of replacing him and fighting against corruption and doping would be gone)?
I'd say that the guy who banned Russia and implemented the seemingly impossible in cleaning up Kenyan athletics (to a great an extent as is likely possible) is less corrupt than the guy who took bribes to cover up doping cases.
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Hopefully Coe will take a harder line against Kenya and the rest going forward, now that he doesn't have to worry about corrupt African voting politics.
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Biz as Usual wrote:
Super.
We get Thomas Bach’s hand picked successor. The corruption continues!
African (albeit a white African), woman, sports minister in a regime known for oppression and internal corruption. It’s almost the perfect marriage of DEI + status quo cronyism.
Sounds, other than being female, that Musk (SA) had a hand in this - although Trump should have been (as leader of the world) consulted. Wasn't a great slate of candidates, why was no American on the list? Trump needs to disavow this (for the female only) and insert his own candidate or make the LA Olympics (his OG) a hell-hole for the rest of the world.
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the new world rder wrote:
Biz as Usual wrote:
Super.
We get Thomas Bach’s hand picked successor. The corruption continues!
African (albeit a white African), woman, sports minister in a regime known for oppression and internal corruption. It’s almost the perfect marriage of DEI + status quo cronyism.
Sounds, other than being female, that Musk (SA) had a hand in this - although Trump should have been (as leader of the world) consulted. Wasn't a great slate of candidates, why was no American on the list? Trump needs to disavow this (for the female only) and insert his own candidate or make the LA Olympics (his OG) a hell-hole for the rest of the world.
Get some sleep.
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