In the French capital, the fire of Olympia has gone out. Paris 2024 has brought sport into a new era. The president of the International Olympic Committee has declared the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games closed, Thomas Bach. For the 70-year-old world sports leader, it was the sixth time he declared the Games “closed”, the first being those of 2014 in Sochi, Russia, a nation that was banned from Paris 2024 following sanctions for the special military operation in Ukraine.
The one who extinguished the torch was the French swimming champion, Lèon Marchand. Goodbye is in Los Angeles 2028. In four years, according to what has been declared, Thomas Bach will no longer be the president of the IOC. In June 2025 there will be new elections and, as expected, the sure candidate seems to be Sir Sebastian Coeformer Olympic champion in the 1500 meters in athletics. There should be other candidates and, it is not excluded, that the head of the IOC could be a woman, it would be the first in the ultra-century history of the institution founded in Paris in 1894. Bach, in greeting the world of sport at the Stade de France, said, “The Olympics cannot bring peace, but they can bring their spirit of peace and all the countries of the world should be inspired by this spirit”.
Then the German leader, very close to Italy and Giovanni Malagò, added, “Athletes lived side by side, peacefully even when their countries were at war: this is the message of the Olympics to the world”. In Los Angeles 2028, Malagò will not be at the helm of CONI: current Italian law does not provide for an extension of the legislature of the Roman manager who, after dreaming of bringing the 2024 Summer Games to Rome, won the race for the 2026 Winter Games, assigned to Milan and Cortina.