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  • 11 months ago
The election for the new President of the International Olympic Committee will take place behind closed doors in Greece on Thursday at the organization's 144th session.

The winner among the seven candidates will lead the largest sporting organization in the world.

IOC candidate Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. says he is feeling the pressure ahead of the decision which is set for Thursday.

His father led the IOC from 1980 to 2001 but he indicated that it's not a question about legacy for him.
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00:00Sergio, with all the love, respect and pride that I have for my heritage, my last name
00:07and my father, different worlds, not even different worlds, different everything.
00:14My father joined the Olympic movement around almost 60 years ago and left 25 years ago.
00:20None of the things that he and the other people that had to come to save and reinvent the
00:25Olympic movement at that time, none of the challenges they faced, none of the recipes
00:31that they had to use to get along have any resemblance of the challenges or the recipes
00:37of today.
00:38So unfortunately, there is no connection.
00:44There is nothing from there that can be applied today.
00:49So I have many, I feel a lot of pressure.
00:51I feel now pressure because I'm in a competition and like athletes because I want to win.
00:59So I hit the pressure of trying to produce the best possible ideas.
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