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PARIS — IOC president Thomas Bach says the Olympics will be "best served with a change in leadership" and he plans to leave office next year. Bach has led the International Olympic Committee since September 2013 and his 12-year limit was due to expire next year. But the members asked him last year to consider changing IOC rules to let him remain in office. The 70-year-old Bach on Saturday said the IOC needed a new leader who could steer the Olympics through an increasingly digital and political world.
