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The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle in Lausanne

No transparency please, we’re the IOC: Coe makes his pitch for world sport’s top job

Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Coe is seen as having a live shot at becoming IOC president. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

It sounds like a brain stumper from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. Which major 2025 election is being fought over by several presidents, a vice-president, a prince, a lord, and a politician from Zimbabwe? And, for good measure, could be won for the first time by someone from Britain?

The answer can be found in Lausanne, where the seven candidates hoping to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have gathered to make their one and only direct pitch – via a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation – for the biggest job in global sport.

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