{"id":465873,"date":"2023-10-15T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465873"},"modified":"2023-10-15T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:53:14","slug":"ioc-advises-bach-to-seek-4-more-years-as-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ioc-advises-bach-to-seek-4-more-years-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC advises Bach to seek 4 more years as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic President Thomas Bach was urged by its members today to change IOC rules on term limits and be 4 more years as president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach refused to rule out standing for another term as several members called on Sunday for a change of rules that would let him extend his time in office \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2Pp1UuNNh\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/q2Pp1UuNNh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFPSports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFPSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YOGUrdE7Cy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YOGUrdE7Cy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1713551925822570770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 presidency is set to end in 2025 \u2013 a 12-year maximum agreed-in anti-corruption reforms passed after the Salt Lake City bid scandal happened.<\/p>\n<p>However, given the world&#8217;s current situation, a few of the 99 International Olympic Committee members started their annual meeting today, sharing they want more of Bach&#8217;s leadership in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very proud of you, and it will be for the best if you remain a president in the foreseeable future,&#8221; claimed IOC member Luis Mejia Oviedo of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Bach shared after hearing those words that the IOC members moved him and made him proud of his work for the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic President Thomas Bach was urged by its members today to change IOC rules on term limits and be 4 more years as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465874,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17668],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[20044,21765],"acf":{"announce":"The members want Thomas to remain their president for 4 more years.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465876,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465873\/revisions\/465876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465873"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465873"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}