IOC president Thomas Bach warned against Olympic boycotts on Friday while also confirming he will seek re-election next year.
Bach seems certain to get four more years in 2021 after almost half of the 100 International Olympic Committee members from around the world praised him in an online version of their annual meeting.
The Beijing Winter Olympics, currently scheduled for February 2022, will be an early highlight and a potential test of Bach's second and, according to current IOC rules, final term in office. The issue is personal for Bach, who won a gold medal in team fencing at the 1976 Montreal Olympics but could not defend the title when West Germany joined the United States and others in refusing to send teams to the 1980 Moscow Games.
If Bach is re-elected unopposed as expected, a big challenge of his next term is likely to be the economic and social recovery of sports from the global health crisis. That comment appeared to criticize the United States after a government-funded study last month raised the possibility of withholding money from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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