(ATR) John Coates will serve another term as president of the Australian Olympic Committee.
The 66-year-old defeated his 46-year-old rival Danni Roche by winning 58 of the 93 votes cast in Saturday's vote during the AOC Annual General Assembly in Sydney. He will stay in the post he has held since 1990.
The campaign ahead of the election was a brutal one. Roche, a gold medalist in field hockey from the 1996 Olympics and a business executive in Melbourne, believes that Coates has served long enough and vowed to bring changes to eliminate tensions among Australian sports bodies.
Coates, meanwhile, campaigned on his experience as well as the international influence he holds as a senior member of the IOC. He views the challenge from Roche as orchestrated by political adversary John Wylie, chair of the Australian Sports Commission. Coates believes that Wylie wants to take control of the $AU 147 million treasury of the AOC, an independent body.
More to come.
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