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How Thomas Bach changed the Games
Thomas Bach heads into retirement after 12 years as president of the International Olympic Committee that included overseeing some of the most tumultuous times in the history of the Games.

Thomas Bach heads into retirement after 12 years as president of the International Olympic Committee that included overseeing some of the most tumultuous times in the history of the Games.
We don’t think it’s part of Fifa’s mandate to give such a prize. ... This peace prize given at the [World Cup] draw in Washington was a breach of Fifa’s own statutes of political neutrality and there was a lack of legal process within Fifa.-- Norwegian Football Federation President Lise Klaveness, on wanting the abolition of the FIFA Peace Prize because it breaches the world governing body’s rules on political neutrality.