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Sergei Bubka’s quantum leap

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Legendary pole vaulter bidding for International Olympic Committee presidency   Moscow: It is strange to see Sergei Bubka — the man who broke 35 world records — as an underdog. Yet here Bubka finds himself, still brimming with energy and ambition at age 49 and now fighting the odds and the political currents as he tries to make the leap from star pole-vaulter to president of the International Olympic Committee. Although the outgoing president, Jacques Rogge, was an Olympian in yachting, the IOC has never had a global sports star as its head. In a celebrity-obsessed era that could provide advantages in terms of leverage and reach, Bubka, to his credit, is not attempting to make the leap from player to league president uniquely on his pole-vaulting record. He has done his due diligence, sat through myriad conferences and held numerous posts in sports administration since he retired as an athlete in 2001. At the moment he is president of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, a member of the IOC’s influential executive board and a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for track and field. He is by far the youngest of the six IOC presidential candidates, which include the IOC vice-presidents Thomas Bach, a 59-year-old from Germany, and Ser Miang Ng, a 64-year-old from Singapore.  more



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