Media interaction with candidates for the IOC presidency

30 January 2025 – Seven candidates will compete in the election for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 144th IOC Session held from 18 to 21 March 2025 in Greece. The candidates will present their programmes, in camera, to the full IOC membership on the occasion of a meeting to be held in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 30 January 2025.

The candidates (in order of the draw):

HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein

Mr David Lappartient

Mr Johan Eliasch

Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch

Mrs Kirsty Coventry

Lord Sebastian Coe

Mr Morinari Watanabe

Documents

Directives and applicable rules – English version

Directives and applicable rules – Spanish version

Regulations concerning the presentations by the candidates for the presidency of the IOC

Voting Regulations for the Election of the President of the IOC

Letter by the IOC Ethics Commission Chair, Mr Ban Ki-moon, to the IOC Members (9 September 2024): Letter in English / French translation / Spanish translation 

Clarification following misleading media reports

We have been made aware of media reports that are misinterpreting the latest letter by the IOC Ethics Commission Chair to all IOC Members.

The letter clarifies the existing rules as per the Olympic Charter, which have applied, and continue to apply, to everyone in the IOC membership. There are no new rules, contrary to what has been reported.

If the IOC membership of a candidate lapses before the end of their presidential term, this term would cease when their IOC membership finishes.

The points were already addressed during both the IOC Session in Mumbai in 2023 and the IOC Session in Paris in 2024.

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