David Lappartient's IOC president candidature is a complete failure with only four votes for the Frenchman
Cycling
David Lappartient will not be the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The UCI boss was defeated in the vote by Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry.
Lappartient announced his candidacy for the IOC presidency in late September 2024, after Thomas Bach announced his retirement after almost twelve years in the function. The Frenchman had recently been up against Jordanian Prince Feisal Al Hussein, Lord Sebastian Coe, Kirsty Coventry, Johan Eliasch, Juan Antonio Samaranch and Morinari Watanabe.
In the election, the Frenchman only received four of the 93 votes, while Coventry won convincingly with 49 votes. This marks the woman from Zimbabwe as first female president of the Olympic Committee.
Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr was the only one who came even close to the 2004 Olympic swimming champion with 28 votes. The son of the IOC president, his father, in the 1980-2001 period will therefore only apply for the position of vice-president for a second term running.
The non-election for the IOC presidency has no consequences for Lappartient's position within the IOC and the UCI. As UCI president, Lappartient will remain part of the IOC until his presidency ends. This year, the UCI will vote on the presidency. Lappartient hopes to then go for his third term at the UCI.
As a candidate, one of the main ideas brought forward by Lappartient was the introduction of Cyclocross as a new Olympic sport at the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in France. Obviously from his position as president of UCI as well as member of the IOC, he may still vouch for the change, however the scales are now tipped against the idea.
Lappartient's candidature came with a sever backleash from the sport of cycling, as it appeared he was neglecting some of his duties in favor of this new, more lucrative function. Combined with his highly polarizing persistence on supporting the 2025 World Championships absolutely taking place in Rwanda, he now has plenty of cleaning up to do in his cycling jurisdiction before he can apply for his third term as UCI president.
Read also
Just in
Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter today!
Profile & Route Classic Brugge-De Panne 2025
Popular news
Latest comments
- Almost makes it sound like he’s just a prop for the Pogačar showJumpyjohn23-03-2025
- Weird title, we have him, is there a rumour he’s leaving or getting thrown out?Jumpyjohn23-03-2025
- All ok except that MVDP wasn’t in SUPER shape before, he probably is now so bring on the next monument please.Jumpyjohn23-03-2025
- It's completely laughable just like the UCI.
kaos23-03-2025 - It's another laughable attempt of the UCI trying to flex their muscles. They've always been a joke and it just gets more ridiculous. If they are going to hand out fines (whether right or wrong) that money should go into a pot and go towards riders safety but we know that will never happenkaos23-03-2025
- He couldn't have zipped it up if he tried. His zipper was broken. If you look closely in some of the pics you can see it's broken. I think the pic in this article you can see it actuallykaos23-03-2025
- The real issue here is that his zipper was BROKEN. He couldn't have zipped it up even if he tried.kaos23-03-2025
- I thought it did mention that. Maybe I read that in a different article tho.kaos23-03-2025
- Another laughable attempt of the UCI trying to flex their muscles. "Damaging the image of the sport" wtf?! How about improving riders safety or doing more about the doping issues and changing testing protocols. That's 'damaging the sport" more than anything ever couldkaos23-03-2025
- Also, can you be clearer about your Merckx point, don’t quite understand what you’re getting at since he won 3 monuments per year in 4 years, 3 consecutively, MSR 7 times, MVDP is the first in over 20 years to win it twice.Mistermaumau23-03-2025