In his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee, Lord Sebastian Coe has outlined his plans to reform the model and focus on youth engagement and climate-conscious policies.
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00:00I don't think we're getting the best out of the membership and look I've spent a
00:06lot of time in you know putting together and thinking long and hard about what
00:14this manifesto looks like and so I'm hoping that that's a co-curation of what
00:20I'm listening to and there is an appetite for change and my instinct it's
00:26reform but it's reform with stability and you can do both. The model has
00:30changed it's not changing the model has changed and we really need to
00:35understand that engaging young people making the games transformative in their
00:43lives making the games exciting and salient and doing it through sport for
00:48me is a no-brainer. Climate change is going to make us have to think very
00:52differently about a lot of things we can't just sort of sit there you know
00:57feeling good about saying you know we're concerned about athlete welfare well
01:01there are going to be disciplines particularly I know in my own sport that
01:05you're not going to be able to stage at times of the year if you really do want
01:09the athletes to be competing in a landscape where it's not injurious to
01:14their health. I'm not closing the door on any innovative thinking but of course
01:20that is done in collaboration it's not done simply by an executive and I don't
01:26want to close the door or the windows on on fresh thinking.