Bach returned unopposed as IOC president

As expected International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach was returned  unopposed for a second term that will keep him in the post until 2025, following a vote on Wednesday's first day of a virtual IOC session. Bach received 93 of the 94 eligible votes cast in an online process.

Bach took over in 2013 as the organization's ninth president since the body's founding in 1894, succeeding Jacques Rogge and beating five other candidates.Presidents can serve two terms, a first term of eight years and a second of four if re-elected.

Bach, a German lawyer who won a gold medal in fencing at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, has been an IOC member since 1991.

He has ruled the IOC virtually unopposed, with the vast majority of decisions in his eight years so far receiving unanimous support from its members, who currently number just over 100.
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