Long-time organizer of the CHIO Aachen, also on the DOSB board.
The IOC Session followed the suggestion of the IOC Executive Board and accepted the well-known sports manager Michael Mronz (3rd from right in the photo) as a member of the International Olympic Committee at its 141st meeting on Tuesday in Mumbai (India). Mronz, who, among other things, has been responsible for the World Equestrian Festival in the Aachen Soers (CHIO) for many years and wanted to bring the 2032 Olympics to the Rhine-Ruhr region, is the third IOC alongside IOC President Thomas Bach (center) and athlete representative Britta Heidemann -Member from Germany.
“The IOC Session has made an excellent choice and appointed an outspoken expert and committed advocate of the Olympic idea to its circle. I am very happy for Michael Mronz personally, but also for German sport, which is now even better represented in the international network. We are also looking forward to the participation of Michael Mronz in the DOSB Presidium, because as an IOC member he will strengthen our committee in accordance with the statutes,” said DOSB President Thomas Weikert on the sidelines of the IOC session in Mumbai.
“It is a great honor for me to have been elected as an IOC member and thereby have the opportunity to represent the international perspective on the DOSB executive board in the future. I am very much looking forward to the trusting collaboration with Thomas Weikert and the Executive Board,” said Michael Mronz and added: “I am also looking forward to the responsibility ahead and, together with Britta Heidemann, to giving international sport greater visibility.”
The IOC Session, as a meeting of all members, is the highest body of the IOC. Since Monday’s elections, the IOC session now has 107 members. In addition to Michael Mronz, Yael Arad (Israel), Mehrez Boussayene (Tunisia), Balász Fürjes (Hungary), Petra Sörling (Sweden), Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta (Peru), Michelle Yeoh (Malaysia) and Jae Youl Kim (South Korea) were elected. According to the Olympic Charter, IOC members are ambassadors of the Olympic Movement in their home countries.
The IOC session also approved the Olympic program for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. At the suggestion of the organizing committee, cricket, baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse and squash were included. Boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon also remain in the Olympic program, meaning medals will be awarded in 36 sports at the LA Games.
Photo-Quelle: IOC
2023-10-17 17:03:01
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