Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr is one of the favorites to become IOC President on Friday. He told CGTN he was “completely focused” on winning, adding: this. “In a race, I’ve learned—despite not being an Olympic or elite athlete—that when you get close to the finish line, you speed up, you don’t slow down to wave.”
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00:00Well, with this type of voting, you can never know.
00:04It's very difficult to know, to measure what the words of support are
00:09when it comes to voting. But yes, I'm very excited.
00:12It's the end of a great race, of a great project, and it's been worth it.
00:17Well, I'm not going to think about how it got there, or how it was.
00:22I'm very focused on mine, and it's a good project,
00:25a project that I've managed to explain, and now the details remain.
00:28Always until the last minute, you want to say something more,
00:31and I'm completely focused on that.
00:33In a race, I've learned, and I'm not an Olympic athlete or an elite athlete,
00:38that when you get close to the finish line, you accelerate.
00:42You don't stop to say hello, so now you have to accelerate even more.