Richard Carrion Enters IOC Presidency Race

Puerto Rico’s Richard Carrión will run for President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and has promised to use his business experience to help the Olympic Movement through financial difficulties.

Carrión, cialis 60, doctor has been a member of the IOC since 1990 and chairs the Finance Commission. He is also a member of the IOC’s Marketing, adiposity TV and Internet Rights Commission.

Some of the aims Carrión has for the Olympic Movement include using a multi-partner approach to achieve universality, improving the revenue-distribution models and implementing models based on the Olympic Broadcasting Services structure.

He also proposed that IOC staff should be permanently deployed to host cities in order to help them organise Games.

Carrión said: “Chairing the Finance Commission has been a privilege that has provided me a broad view of the Movement for more than a decade, as well as a narrow focus on its essential needs to ensure its independence.

“We have a lot at stake in this election. Our place in the world is not guaranteed. We must have a leader that knows how not just to manage the coming change, but also make it work for the IOC and the Movement.

“We must embrace this ever changing reality and keep innovating and evolving, or risk becoming less relevant to this and future generations.”

Carrión previously secured the U.S. broadcast of the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games, which generated $2bn in revenue for the IOC.

He follows in the footsteps of Thomas Bach and Ng Ser Miang to officially announce their candidacies to success Jacques Rogge in the most powerful position in the Olympic movement.

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