Golden 25 -- African Leaders #21, #22
12/23/2010
IOC Executive Board member, Sam Ramsamy, #21 (ATR)
As South Africa prepares to launch a much anticipated bid for the 2020 Olympics, Sam Ramsamy will have a hand in making sure the bid gets off to a good start.
The IOC member from South Africa as well as a member of the Executive Board (his term ends in 2011), Ramsamy is the insider the bid will need to gain traction. Ramsamy can seek another term on the EB.
With that EB election set for the IOC Session in July 2011 in Ramsamy’s hometown Durban, he could have an easy time winning another four year term on the board. And with Durban the city most likely to be nominated from South Africa, Ramsamy should be a key emissary for the Olympic bid.
Ramsamy, 72, was elected to the IOC in 1995. In addition to chairing the IOC Sport for All Commission, Ramsamy is a member of the FINA Bureau and head of the press commission for the aquatics federation
Unranked for 2010
Frank Fredericks, Chair of IOC Athletes Commission #22
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Chair of IOC Athletes Commission, Frank Fredericks, #22 (ATR)
chair of the IOC Athletes Commission, Frank Fredericks is a key member of the IOC from Africa.
The four-time silver medalist sprinter from Namibia is also on the IOC commission for London 2012.
Fredericks, 43, was elected to the IOC Athletes Commission in 2004, his term extending through 2012.
He is one of three Africans serving on the IOC Executive Board, a bloc that could be beneficial to a South African Olympic bid.
Unranked for 2010
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