Outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach faced mammoth challenges
- The state-sponsored doping scandal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and Russia breaking the Olympic Truce twice, in 2014 and 2022, taxed Bach’s patience and that of the IOC movement
- Payne: He will go down as one of the three great IOC presidents along with Pierre de Coubertin and Juan Antonio Samaranch
