* Qualifications: President of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), President of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee. * IOC member since 2022. * A former cyclist at the regional level in France, Lappartient also served as the Mayor of Sarzeau in Brittany and helped multiple local councillor mandates.

The seven IOC Presidential candidates vying to replace Thomas Bach as the top Olympics official have no shortage of suggestions about how to improve the Games.

The increasingly polarising debate over transgender athletes in women’s sport has become a key issue for candidates vying to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee. This is what the contenders said on the issue in their official bids for the top job in world sport.