I’m focused on winning: IOC candidate Samaranch

CGTN Europe

Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr is one of the favorites to become IOC President on Friday. He told CGTN he was “completely focused” on winning, adding: this. “In a race, I’ve learned—despite not being an Olympic or elite athlete—that when you get close to the finish line, you speed up, you don’t slow down to wave.”

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00:00Well, with this type of voting, you can never know.

00:04It's very difficult to know, to measure what the words of support are

00:09when it comes to voting. But yes, I'm very excited.

00:12It's the end of a great race, of a great project, and it's been worth it.

00:17Well, I'm not going to think about how it got there, or how it was.

00:22I'm very focused on mine, and it's a good project,

00:25a project that I've managed to explain, and now the details remain.

00:28Always until the last minute, you want to say something more,

00:31and I'm completely focused on that.

00:33In a race, I've learned, and I'm not an Olympic athlete or an elite athlete,

00:38that when you get close to the finish line, you accelerate.

00:42You don't stop to say hello, so now you have to accelerate even more.

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