Biography
"Fencing - the art of applying injections, not receiving them in response," Jean Batist Moliere wrote.The German Tomas Bach, in his youth, succeeded in one of the most intellectual sports, now applies the ability to lavish and shy away from the post of president of the International Olympic Committee.Childhood and youth
The future chapter of the IOC was born on December 29, 1953 in the city of Würzburg, located in the north of the German land of Bavaria. Childhood and adolescence Bach took place in the district center of Baden-Württemberg Tauberbishofsheim. Now the house on the zonnenplatz in the town, famous for winemaking and a fencing club, in which Thomas lived with parents up to 23 years old, decorate a memorable plate.
After graduating from Gymnasia Mattias Grunnevalda, the young man studied the right and political science at the University of Julius Maximilian in Würzburg. After working as a lawyer-recorder in Bundestag Germany, Thomas in 1983 defended his thesis for the title of Legal Sciences on the topic "The influence of forecasts for the case law of the Constitutional Court of Germany" and opened a law firm in the city of Childhood.
Sports career
Fencing on rapies Bach was engaged in 5 years. Tomas's mentor was the famous coach Emil Beck, who also raised the Olympic champions Matias Bera, Alexander Push and Any Fyhetel.
In 17 years, the native of Würzbugrga won the bronze medal on the youth world championship. The merits of Thomas in sports are marked by silver on the global team championship in Gothenburg in 1973 and gold at the World Championships in Buenos Aires. In 1976, Bach once performed at the Olympics and together with the team rose to the highest step of the podium.
In an interview, Rapyrista repeatedly told that his sports biography could be also brighter, if not a boycott with Western countries of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, a political action did not achieve goals: Soviet presence in Afghanistan, which became a reason for the abolition of participation of athletes from NATO countries in Olympiad, lasts about 9 years. Since then, Bakh has been convinced: any boycott of sporting events strikes first of all by athletes and contradicts the spirit of the Olympic movement.
President Mok.
In 1991, raper became a member of the International Olympic Committee, and after 9 years he took the position of vice president of IOC. In 2006, the merger of Germany and the German Sports Union had occurred at the Bach's homeland in his active participation. The new education, which appeared as a result of the reform, included 90 thousand sports clubs, uniting a third of the German population.In the fall of 2013, Baha was elected president of the IOC. The German had 4 competitors, including the multiple record holder of the world in the pole, Sergey Bubka, who represented Ukraine.
The leadership of Bach Mok fell at the time of shocks. The first of them was the story with Russian doping. The ex-fencer managed to go through the rope over the precipice, punishing Russia, but without breaking the attitude of the Olympic Committee with one of the most sporting powers of the world. Both sides blamed Thomas in the harllation and searched for a compromising on the official.
After the Brazilian Olympiad-2016, the facts of corruption were revealed among the Latin American sports functionaries, then the IOC faced the reluctance of a number of countries to take part in the Olympic activity. But the hardest test for Baha was chaos because of the coronavirus pandemic and the transfer of the Olympiad 2020 for 2021.
Personal life
About the personal life of a former fencer who, with height, 171 cm weighs 65 kg, a little is known. Thomas has a wife that the sports functioner brought to the Olympics in Sochi and represented Vladimir Putin. But information about the profession and age Frau Bach, as well as the children of the head of the IOC, will not be discussed.
Thomas Bach now
In December 2020, Bach reported that Alexander Lukashenko was forbidden to attend the Olympics in Tokyo and other IOC events. A similar prohibition is distributed to a number of other Belarusian officials, including the Senior Son of Alexander Grigorievich Viktor Lukashenko, holding the position of First Vice President of Nok Belarus. Interestingly, in the summer of 2019, the head of the IOC came to Minsk at the II European Games and exchanged with Lukashenko-senior compliments.In the early spring of 2021, the former fencer was once again elected president of the International Olympic Committee. This time the elections took place on a non-alternative basis and online.
In May 2021, the Japanese accused Baha in their seniority to their health. The word for accusations was the words of a sports official about the need for victims of the sake of the Olympics. In fact, the former rapist spoke about the victims who will have forced athletes and fans: Foreign sports lovers will not come to Tokyo to support their teams in order not to worsen in the Pacific epidemiological situation in the Pacific State.
Another reason for criticism was the desire of the Bach to change the Olympic motto. The version offered by Thomas sounds like this: "Faster, above, stronger - together!"
Awards
- 1973 - Gold Medal of the World Cup
- 1976 - Gold Medal of the Olympic Games
- 1977 - Silver Medal of the World Cup
- 1979, 1981 - Bronze Medal of the World Cup
- 1981 - Cavalier Cross Order "For Merit to the Federal Republic of Germany"
- 1984 - Order "For merits to Earth Baden-Württemberg"
- 1993 - Officer's Cross Order "For Services to the Federal Republic of Germany"
- 2004 - Commander Cross Order "For Merit to the Federal Republic of Germany"
- 2014 - Order of Honor (Russia)
- 2015 - Order of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus
- 2015 - Order of Prince Yaroslav Wise V degree (Ukraine)