IOC President Thomas Bach at the HSG

21 September 2017. The event is open to the public; admission is free. It will take place in the Audimax (Room 09-010) of the HSG on Monday, 2 October 2017, from 6.15 to 7.30 p.m. The moderator will be Matthias Hüppi of Swiss Television (SRF).

Thomas Bach was an Olympic fencing champion: he won gold with the German foil team in Montreal in 1976. In September 2013, the business lawyer from Tauberbischofsheim was elected President of the International Olympic Committee, of which he had been a member since 1991. From 2006 to 2013, Bach was President of the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB).

The 63-year-old was already involved in sports politics while he was still competing as an athlete. Thus Thomas Bach opposed the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and in 1981 was among the founder members of the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission. The discussion with SRF sports moderator Matthias Hüppi will not only focus on the career of the world’s top sports official, but particularly also on current challenges confronting the Olympic movement, the 2020 Olympic agenda and the significance of student sports for the development of sports.

Photo: IOC/David Burnett