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International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany arrives for the opening of the IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland, Sunday, July 9, 2017. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, IOC Vice President John Coates delivers a speech during the closing plenary session of the IOC Debriefing of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, in Tokyo. An increasingly bitter Olympic election in Australia has intensified with Coates describing the campaign against him as malicious and designed to damage him personally. Coates is facing his first challenge as president of the Australian Olympic Committee in 27 years, with 1996 Olympic field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche running against him in a May 6, 2017 ballot. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland. Olympic leader Thomas Bach's grand plan was to streamline the Olympics, cut costs and encourage more cities to step up to try to host the games. Judged by the first round of bidding since the revamp, the plan, titled "Agenda 2020," has failed. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

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IOC President Thomas Bach speaks to the media following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. With Abe, Bach discussed the possibility of staging some Olympic events in the northeastern region of Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. "Baseball and softball were some of the options under discussion," Bach said. (Yoshinobu Shimizu/Kyodo News via AP)

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IOC President Thomas Bach, right, accompanied by IOC Vice President John Coates, second right, and Japan's Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa, left, attend their meeting in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (Japan Pool Photo via AP)

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FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

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FILE - In this May 24, 2012, file photo, United States Olympic Committee Secretary General Scott Blackmun discusses with the media an agreement between the IOC and the USOC at the SportAccord conference in Quebec City. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the sports it oversees are behind the curve when it comes to placing women and minorities in key coaching and leadership positions, according to a set of ``scorecards'' the federation has compiled over the past three years. (Francis Vachon/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, talks with IOC President Thomas Bach while watching the USA Russia men's hockey game from a box at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip )

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IOC President Thomas Bach arrives for the men's downhill at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

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India's Shiva Keshavan speaks at a luncheon at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Keshavan competed in the men's singles luge under the Olympic flag because India's Olympic body had been suspended by the IOC in 2012 over a corruption scandal. The IOC executive board reinstated the Indian Olympic body on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, after it held a weekend ballot that complied with ethics rules barring corruption-tainted officials from running for election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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India's Shiva Keshavan speaks at a luncheon at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Keshavan competed in the men's singles luge under the Olympic flag because India's Olympic body had been suspended by the IOC in 2012 over a corruption scandal. The IOC executive board reinstated the Indian Olympic body on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, after it held a weekend ballot that complied with ethics rules barring corruption-tainted officials from running for election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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India's Shiva Keshavan is interviewed after speaking at a luncheon at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Keshavan competed in the men's singles luge under the Olympic flag because India's Olympic body had been suspended by the IOC in 2012 over a corruption scandal. The IOC executive board reinstated the Indian Olympic body on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, after it held a weekend ballot that complied with ethics rules barring corruption-tainted officials from running for election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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India's Shiva Keshavan speaks at a luncheon at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Keshavan competed in the men's singles luge under the Olympic flag because India's Olympic body had been suspended by the IOC in 2012 over a corruption scandal. The IOC executive board reinstated the Indian Olympic body on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, after it held a weekend ballot that complied with ethics rules barring corruption-tainted officials from running for election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)