“It’s not the job of an IOC president to have an easy life,” said Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, adding that his task is to "organise the best possible Olympic Games for the athletes". Bach spoke to FRANCE 24 about the impact that the wars around the world and the current political chaos in France have had on the organisation of the 2024 Paris Games.
With a week to go before the start of the world’s largest sporting event, Bach said the Games’ core values and mission of unity and peace are possibly “more important than ever”.
