IOC president Thomas Bach addresses the audience during the 142nd IOC session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
PARIS (AP) – IOC president Thomas Bach on Saturday said he will leave office next year and that the Olympics is “best served with a change in leadership.”
Bach has led the International Olympic Committee since September 2013 and his 12-year limit was due to expire next year – but the members asked him last year to consider changing IOC rules to let him remain in office.
The 70-year-old Bach said the IOC needed a new leader who could steer the Olympic movement through an increasingly digital and political world.
“New times are calling for new leaders,” Bach told the IOC membership in Paris.
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