Won by the smallest majority - 49/97
Kirsty Coventry elected as president of IOC
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I feel like you took the Rojo approach to starting threads - catchy title while deliberately vague. Nice work.
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It's awesome they showed the voting breakdown too. Coe was a distant third (8).
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ladedah wrote:
It's awesome they showed the voting breakdown too. Coe was a distant third (8).
I'm surprised. I thought he would get more support than that.
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She should move to USA. She could be an African American.
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Nothing to add other than that "scrutineer" is a fun new word I learned from the paperwork shown in the article.
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I see that Kirsty Coventry won this election:
The article mentioned that her election in the first round was greeted by "gasps" from spectators. I do not recall hearing about her and her olympic swimming medals, and can not judge how she will be as the new president - but I was surprised that Sebastian Coe, whose background seemed to leave him very well prepared for that role, was defeated. Can any of you provide more insights?
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picture painter wrote:
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I feel like you took the Rojo approach to starting threads - catchy title while deliberately vague. Nice work.
He must be good at fishing but we love all our africans! If she is competent it’s all it takes😇
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What are her thoughts on trans athletes and rans swimmers in particular competing in the Olympics?
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Coe received only 8 votes
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50 states wrote:
She should move to USA. She could be an African American.
Just imagine her kids being accepted to Harvard on affirmative action. Then the admissions see pasty faces just like theirs. That has to be a priceless moment.
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L. Thomas wrote:
What are her thoughts on trans athletes and rans swimmers in particular competing in the Olympics?
She supports classification based on biological sex, not gender.
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Coe got absolutely destroyed. I didn't follow it at all but googling now see Coventry was expected to lead the 1st round of voting but not get a majority and then someone else would eventually win.
Here are vote totals:
Majority required: 49
Kirsty Coventry: 49
Juan Antonio Samarach Jr: 28
Sebastian Coe: 8
Morinari Watanabe: 4
David Lappartient: 4
Prince Feisal Al Hussein: 2
Johan Eliasch: 2
Coe led the early betting odds but apparently his odds tanked recently.I Feb Betonline.At article had these odds:
Next IOC President Odds:
Sebastian Coe: +150
Prince Faisal al-Hussein: +400
David Lappartient: +500
Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr.: +600
Kirsty Coventry: +600
Morinari Watanabe: +600
Johan Eliasch: +800But this post early in the week implies Coe tanked from 82% to 19% in Polymarket betting odds. I couldn't find that market on Polymarket so a word of caution.This post by same author hinted at a possible scandal.
Then I saw this in The Athletic:
"This past weekend, social media posts and little-known websites spread lurid claims of previous actions by two of the candidates, without providing evidence or citing sources — suggestions of personal wrongdoing serious enough to sink their campaigns. Neither the I.O.C. nor the candidates have commented publicly, but the allegations became grist for gossip at the I.O.C. gathering."
Just doing a quick search on X I saw posts trying to link Coe to Epstein Island. This video which got millions of views on X alone claims he visited Epstein island 11 times and was one of Epstein's closest associates:Yet googling around I find ZERO evidence he visited Espstein Island. If his name had been released I'm pretty sure the sleuths on LRC would have reported it here.
Then supported "leaked" audio where he allegedly questions Kenyans intelligence.Audio sounds like a fake to me.
And then you have random stuff like this:So looks like one of the smear campaigns was against Coe. Pretty disgusting if this was a smear campaign against him.
I'm going to start a different thread on this.
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L. Thomas wrote:
What are her thoughts on trans athletes and rans swimmers in particular competing in the Olympics?
Who cares?
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Women and anyone who cares about women's rights do.
You and your ilk can't even define "woman".
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Will she ban Kenya? Hopefully.
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We already have 3 active threads on this topic. Rather than create a 4th thread, how about merge all the existing threads together and make that the official thread?
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I don't know the other contenders except for Coe. I would have voted for Coe.
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50 states wrote:
She should move to USA. She could be an African American.
She went to school at Auburn. Surprised they would elect a white African farmer in this era (does anyone know is she a Rhodie or a Zimbo?).
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The mythical white African
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