- Title: PROFILE: Can cycling chief David Lappartient ride off with top prize?
- Date: 14th March 2025
- Summary: LAPPARTIENT WALKING INTO PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (French) INTERNATIONAL CYCLING CHIEF, DAVID LAPPARTIENT, SAYING: "There are a number of issues involved, but when I gave this interview, it was in a more general sense, meaning that any country, in this case Russia, should not be suspended indefinitely by the International Olympic Committee. It is a country of spor
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- Keywords: David Lappartient IOC IOC Presidential candidate
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- Country: France
- Topics: Europe,Olympics,Sport
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- Story Text: Only an IOC member since 2022, current UCI President David Lappartient may be one to watch among the outsiders to become the next IOC President.
The 51-year-old Frenchman, who is also President of his nation's Olympic committee, is a civil engineer by training and became a sports administrator through his love of cycling.
Among his manifesto promises were:
* Commissions: I will propose a small reduction in the number of commissions and the number of Members in each commission to improve their efficiency.
* Gender parity: Women make up 41% of our membership... I propose setting a goal to achieve parity among Members no later than 2036.
* I would ask Members if they would agree to a slight increase in the number of IOC Members, which would come from the Athletes Commission and ensure that each continent is represented in order to take a more universal scope.
* Doping: We must continue to innovate in the fight against doping and marshal the necessary resources because the funds allocated to research by the WADA are not enough.
* As part of our desire to be present in every region of the world...I hope that we can organise the Olympic Games in Africa in the future.
* I believe it would also be worthwhile to better define the conditions for adding new sports to the programme of the Olympic Games (universality, quotas, Olympic revenue, etc.) and integrating new disciplines of sports already on the Olympic programme.
* Esports: We need to throw our weight behind the Olympic Esports Games and get International Federations involved whenever possible. National Olympic Committees will also play a key role in overseeing the teams defending their national colours.
* We must avoid building infrastructures in sensitive natural areas and make sure to mitigate the impact of sporting events on biodiversity.
* I also deem it important to rein IOC spending to save as many resources as possible for the implementation of our missions and substantial disbursements to Members of the Olympic Movement.
* I will table a proposal at the IOC Session to convene an Olympic Congress in accordance with Rule 4 to enrich our Agenda through a debate with all the stakeholders of sport. It would be the 14th Olympic Congress. The most recent one was held in Copenhagen in 2009. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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