Thomas Bach

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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach delivers a speech at World Forum on Sports and Culture in Tokyo. Los Angeles and Paris should edge closer Friday, June 9, 2017 to both getting Olympic host city rights later this year. The expected agreement would fulfill IOC President Thomas Bach’s wish to avoid making a loser of either world-class candidate, though it must be ratified by the Olympic body’s voting members. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during a press conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. The IOC has moved closer toward picking both Los Angeles and Paris to host a Summer Games in an unprecedented double vote this year. Bach has repeatedly hinted at picking both LA and Paris by awarding both the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games hosting rights at the IOC Session on Sept. 13. (Yoo Hyung-jae/Yonhap via AP)

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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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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, is welcomed by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike during a meeting at the Tokyo Metropolitan government building in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach expressed willingness Tuesday to work with Tokyo officials to try to reduce spiraling cost estimates for the 2020 Summer Games. Bach arrived in Japan amid growing tension between Olympic organizers and recently elected Tokyo Gov. Koike’s push to cuts costs. He declined to discuss specific proposals, saying he only knew about them so far from media reports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, is welcomed by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike during a meeting at the Tokyo Metropolitan government building in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach expressed willingness Tuesday to work with Tokyo officials to try to reduce spiraling cost estimates for the 2020 Summer Games. Bach arrived in Japan amid growing tension between Olympic organizers and recently elected Tokyo Gov. Koike’s push to cuts costs. He declined to discuss specific proposals, saying he only knew about them so far from media reports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach, speaks during the opening ceremony of IOC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin watch the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. left, smiles as he sits with Norwegian IOC-member Gerhard Heiberg during a meeting Norway's Minister of Culture, Thorhild Widvey in Oslo Monday May 19, 2014. Bach was in Oslo is discuss the 2022 Oslo Winter Olympic bid.(AP Photo: Hakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB scanpix) NORWAY OUT

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This image released by the Saudi Press Agency shows Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd bin Abdul-Aziz, an International Olympic Committee member and president of the national Olympic committee, right,, walking with IOC President Thomas Bach, left, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. IOC President Thomas Bach has discussed the issue of women’s participation in sports with Saudi Arabia’s Olympic chief. The IOC says Wednesday that Bach promised “full support” for the country’s sports development strategy through 2020. The plan includes “proposals to increase women's participation in the Olympic Games and in sport in general.” Saudi women are largely banned from participating in sports in the kingdom, although there are several football and basketball clubs that play in clandestine leagues. After prolonged negotiations with the IOC, Saudi Arabia sent women to the Olympics for the first time in 2012, with two female athletes competing at the London Games. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

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This image released by the Saudi Press Agency shows Prince Nawaf Faisal Fahd bin Abdul-Aziz, an International Olympic Committee member and president of the national Olympic committee, left, walking with IOC President Thomas Bach, right, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. IOC President Thomas Bach has discussed the issue of women’s participation in sports with Saudi Arabia’s Olympic chief. The IOC says Wednesday that Bach promised “full support” for the country’s sports development strategy through 2020. The plan includes “proposals to increase women's participation in the Olympic Games and in sport in general.” Saudi women are largely banned from participating in sports in the kingdom, although there are several football and basketball clubs that play in clandestine leagues. After prolonged negotiations with the IOC, Saudi Arabia sent women to the Olympics for the first time in 2012, with two female athletes competing at the London Games. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

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In this photo taken Saturday, March 8, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speak during the ice sledge hockey match between Russia and South Korea of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)