Thomas Bach, unopposed, reelected as IOC president until 2025 GENEVA -- Thomas Bach was reelected as president of the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday for a final four-year term, with his immediate focus on this year's delayed Tokyo Games. The German lawyer was unopposed and won the vote 93-1, with four members abstaining, after an opening eight-year mandate dominated by the Russian doping scandal and the first Olympics to be postponed in peacetime. "Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for this overwhelming vote of confidence and trust," Bach said during an online meeting of IOC members. Bach said Tokyo was "the best prepared Olympic city ever" and reiterated that the Games would open July 23 despite restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.