OLYMPIA – Thomas Bach focused on how peace is the essence ... Bach, who won fencing team foil gold in the 1976 Montreal Games, had to balance the strong emotions aroused over Russia’s invasion ...

With the formal election of Curtis Coventry, a former swimming champion from Zimbabwe, as his successor, a fresh hope emerges for Olympic reforms driven by a new generation of leadership. The legacy ...

Thomas Bach is said to have planned to prevent Lord Coe from succeeding ... Yet Coe is seen as too unreliable and too much of a maverick by Germany’s former foil fencer Bach, who, it is argued, was ...

Coe is one of seven contenders seeking to succeed outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach ... too much of a maverick by Germany’s former foil fencer Bach. It has been argued Bach was annoyed by ...

Outgoing International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has become the second person to be named honorary IOC preisdent for life. The 144th IOC Session approved an according proposal ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – Thomas Bach’s life has been dominated by the Olympics, as a team fencing gold medallist and then International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief – and he deserves to be ...

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry believed to ...

For 12 years, Bach has overseen one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of the Olympic movement – a global pandemic with two Games behind closed doors, a state-sponsored Russian ...

As he approaches his final week in the sporting world's top job, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is feeling relaxed. When a new IOC president is elected Thursday ...