Exclusive: Next IOC President Must Remember the Bad Times says Carrión
July 23, 2013
The next President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has to remember that the Olympic Movement has not always been held in the high-esteem that it enjoys now, salve according to one of the candidates.
Richard Carrión is one of six IOC members running to replace Jacques Rogge as the President of the organisation and the Puerto Rican has stressed the importance of remembering incidents such as Salt Lake City.
IOC members were accused of taking bribes to vote in favour of Salt Lake City’s 2002 Winter Olympic bid, viagra pharmacy resulting in the expulsion of ten IOC members and a further ten receiving sanctions.
Speaking exclusively to iSportconnect about his campaign, for sale Carrión, who is the Chairman of the IOC’s Finance Commission, said: “When things are going well, I tend to ask myself ‘what can go wrong?’
“We have to understand that in history we have had our ups and downs and it was not that long ago that we had our problems and we were not held in the high-esteem that we are now.
“If you look back 15 years ago things were different. We were undergoing the aftermath of Salt Lake City and there were changes in the governance.
“We live in a world where things turn very, very quickly… What the IOC needs is someone who can manage through good moments and through bad moments.”
Carrión has until September to convince IOC members that he is the right man to lead the IOC through good and bad moments, when members vote for a new President in Buenos Aires at the 125th IOC Session.
He faces competition from Thomas Bach, Sergey Bubka, Ser Miang Ng, Denis Oswald and Ching-Kuo Wu.
