I’ve been in training for IOC role for the best part of my life – Sebastian Coe
I’ve been in training for IOC role for the best part of my life – Sebastian Coe
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Sebastian Coe has said the Olympic movement is central to his identity and his life after making his pitch to be International Olympic Committee president to the organisation’s members in Lausanne on Thursday. The double Olympic gold medallist, who is the current president of World Athletics, said this was a role he had been “training for for the best part of my life”.
He is one of seven candidates to succeed outgoing president Thomas Bach, with the election set to take place on March 20 at the IOC Session in Greece, and sees himself as a reformer keen to protect female sport and provide greater commercial recognition to athletes.
Each candidate gave a 15-minute presentation to IOC members on Thursday morning. I feel very privileged and very, very honoured to have been a small part of (the Olympic movement). It is what I am. It is who I am, and it's why I'm here today. Addressing the media afterwards, Coe said: “I hope I was able to communicate my love for the (Olympic) movement and the history that I hold very dear in that movement.
“It’s something that I genuinely feel I’ve been in training for for the best part of my life. “I think that we have an opportunity to build another lustrous chapter in the future of this extraordinary movement. “I feel very privileged and very, very honoured to have been a small part of it. It is what I am. It is who I am, and it’s why I’m here today.”.
