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This sports boss, paid hundreds of thousands of euros a year, really doesn't know anything?

This sports boss, paid hundreds of thousands of euros a year, really doesn't know anything?

Kirsty Coventry Photo: Profimedia

Kirsty Coventry, the president of the International Olympic Committee, can triumph in any competition “Who doesn't know, wins!”, writes Cristian Geambașu, in an opinion published on GOLAZO.ro, the sports website of HotNews.

“I look at my team again and maybe someone needs to be fired because I don't know about that either.” Instead of no comment, I don't know. It was the 3rd question in a row from the reporters that Kirsty Coventry had no answer to.

The press conference of the president of the International Olympic Committee at the end of the Milan-Cortina Games was a complete fiasco. Instead of a relaxed meeting, in which the supreme boss of the world's Olympism to depend on the nice balance of the competition that has just ended, a disaster of proportions.

Just ignorance?

But is the shocking lack of awareness of Zimbabwe's former double Olympic swimming champions just the sloppy work of IOC communications chief Mark Adams' team?

Is it just ignorance in Mrs. Coventry's non-answers, or is it an assumed refuge in the face of uncomfortable questions?

For throughout modern times (about those in the legend woven around Baron Pierre de Coubertin we know little concrete things), the leadership of the IOC and the tutelary body itself have been the subject of controversy.

The continuation, on GOLAZO.ro.

Ashley Davis

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