International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will not seek to remain in the post after the end of his second term in 2025 despite calls from members to stay on, he said on Saturday.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a “new world order” gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

With the U.S. Olympic Committee adhering to the Trump administration's drive to push transgender women out of sports, here's what that means for athletes and sports organizations.

Thomas Bach's tenure as Olympics leader has been controversial as took the IOC through doping scandals, controversy involving Chinese and Russian influence, and two Games held during Covid pandemic.

Outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach on Trump, trans athletes, Putin and the role of the Olympics in a divided world Aleks Klosok and Amanda Davies, CNN March 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM UTC · ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected President of the International Olympic ...

The International Olympic Committee says it paid its president Thomas Bach $350,000 in 2024. That was a 10% raise for his final full year in office after a two-year freeze. The payment, or ...

The International Olympic Committee says it paid its president Thomas Bach's income and expenses of $350,000 in 2024. It included a salary-like payment payment, or “indemnity” in Olympic ...

Outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach on Trump, trans athletes, Putin and the role of the Olympics in a divided world. CNN Francois-Xavier Marit/Pool/Reuters via CNN Newsource. By CNN Newssource.

Bach’s message will face a stern test as the Summer Games prepare to head to Los Angeles in 2028.They do so against the backdrop of an increasingly uncertain and fractured political and societal ...