The Race to Olympia: Speech Day

It was the most important day so far yesterday in the race to succeed Thomas Bach as IOC President and Duncan Mackay and David Owen were both in Lausanne to follow events

It is Thursday morning - early - and I am standing in the foyer of Lausanne’s Palace hotel.

International Olympic Committee members mill around me, soon to be whisked to Olympic House for today’s succession of speeches by the seven IOC Presidential contenders. There is Serbia’s Nenad Lalovic, Mr Wrestling, in his snappy, turquoise-framed specs. Canada’s…