{"id":20993,"date":"2024-08-11T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympics-2024-lord-coe-to-seriously-consider-running-for-ioc-president\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T16:03:52","slug":"olympics-2024-lord-coe-to-seriously-consider-running-for-ioc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympics-2024-lord-coe-to-seriously-consider-running-for-ioc-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2024: Lord Coe to &#8216;seriously&#8217; consider running for IOC president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">World Athletics president Lord Coe says he will give &#8220;serious thought&#8221; to running for the role of president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Bach, the current president, announced on Saturday that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cy8x9pjjy19o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">stand down in 2025 following 12 years in the role<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like Bach, Coe is into his third presidential term in charge of World Athletics after running unopposed to continue the role in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Look, I&#8217;ve always made it clear that if the opportunity arose I would obviously give it serious thought,&#8221; said 67-year-old Coe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The opportunity has arisen and clearly I need to think about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new president will take charge in June 2025 following elections in March in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under IOC rules, no candidate can declare their intention to run for presidency until three months before the election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The charter is pretty clear about timings here, so this is only, at best, a consideration,&#8221; said Coe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coe helped London to win a hosting bid for the 2012 Olympics and was instrumental in the delivery of the Games. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cy9eq1rzj0lo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Athletics president Lord Coe says he will give &#8220;serious thought&#8221; to running for the role of president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Thomas Bach, the current president, announced on Saturday that he would stand down in 2025 following 12 years in the role. Like Bach, Coe is into his third presidential term in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20995,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions\/20995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}