Malaysian Michelle Yeoh and Peruvian Cecilia Villacorta, elected to the IOC
The first achieved a milestone by winning the Oscar for best actress and played squash, the second is a representative in her country and worked as a volleyball player. Both were elected on Tuesday, in Mumbai (India), for a four-year term on the International Olympic Committee.
Also elected were the Israeli judoka Yael Arad, the Hungarian sports leader Balazs Fürjes, the German sports event organizer Michael Mronz and the head of the Tunisian Olympic Committee (Mehrez Boussayene).
The institution also elected the Swedish Petra Sorling, president of the International Table Tennis Federation (TTF), and the South Korean Kim Jae-youl, president of the International Ice Skating Union (ISU).
Although she never competed in the Olympic Games or held executive positions in sport, Michelle Yeoh is the best known of the eight new members of the IOC after winning the Oscar for best actress seven months ago for her role in the comedy ‘All at once. everywhere’.
However, the actress was a junior national squash champion, a sport that the IOC has just integrated for the Olympic Games. of the Angels.
2023-10-17 12:08:59
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