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GENEVA — The IOC presidential election on Thursday takes place in a political climate that seems a world away from the last contested Olympic leadership vote in 2013. Prince Feisal of Jordan is among three of the seven candidates on this ballot who was an IOC member and voted 11 ½ years ago. He says "there is a very different flavor between the two elections." The 2013 win by Thomas Bach was "more personality driven" than this time when real-world politics are a factor. The prince says "we don't want sports to be politicized but the reality is we are part of this global environment."
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