Even as he steps down from 32 years in the top job, the knowledge and contacts of Australia’s Olympic supremo will be tapped for years to come.
later that year spelt out problems with Coates’ leadership, pointing to an ethos of ‘politics of patronage’ within the organisation. “The president is perceived to exercise overriding influence or control over the AOC,” the report found.
“The regrets – I have few, I really do,” he says. “I think maybe I should have not been so curt in instructing [Queensland Premier] Annastacia [Palaszczuk], that she should go to the opening ceremony.”for the way he spoke to Palaszczuk at a news conference, giving his “very strong recommendation” that she go to the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony that she had already said she would not attend.Publicly he remains unwilling to recognise sports federations’ frustrations with the AOC.
Coates will remain a vice president of the IOC until 2024, when he will quit the global Olympic body, leaving it without a key figure who was a driving force in making sure the“[IOC president] Thomas Bach has relied on John Coates in many ways,” she says. “If you look at delivering Tokyo 2020, John Coates was the. That Games may not have happened without John Coates.”
Wylie disagrees, citing a string of former athletes with the business and commercial acumen to represent the country in global Olympic circles, such as former rower and Wesfarmers CEO and Rowing Australia chairman Rob Scott, rower and UBS Global Asset Management director James Tomkins, rower and EY partner Kim Brennan, rower and WorkCover Queensland chairwoman Flavia Gobbo, consultant and World Sailing vice president Sarah Kenny, and former Australian Sailing president Matt Allen.
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