And four. After Thomas Bach, Ng Ser Miang and CK Wu, Richard Carrion announced his candidacy for the presidency of the IOC. The Puerto Rican, aged 60, made it officially this Wednesday, May 22, 2013. An unsurprising announcement, his name having been circulating for months as one of the safest and most anticipated candidates.

Without predicting the outcome of the vote, which becomes more and more open as the list of contenders grows, the name of Richard Carrion is certainly not to be neglected. Having joined the IOC in 1990, he cannot boast of a brilliant sporting past, unlike Thomas Bach, for example, a former Olympic medalist in fencing. But his resume professional speaks for himself. A graduate of a major economics school, then an American university, this father of 5 children is considered one of the wealthiest men in the Olympic movement. In fact, for twenty years he has been running Popular Inc., a financial holding company whose weight is estimated to reach several tens of billions of dollars. An activity that he combines with, among others, the management of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

No wonder the IOC entrusted him with the purse strings. In addition to having served on the IOC Executive Board between 2004 and 2012, Richard Carrion took charge of the finances of the Olympic institution. He therefore led the negotiations for the television rights to the Games, with the success we know. Clearly, choosing Richard Carrion to succeed Jacques Rogge on September 10 would be for IOC members the assurance of seeing the house maintain its comfortable lifestyle, or even enrich itself further. He himself said it unequivocally, when declaring himself: "It has often happened to me to have to maneuver in difficult times, but to have succeeded in helping the Olympic movement to secure its financial situation and its income. »

A strong candidate, but as the other three seem to be. Who will be next to join the list of contenders? Denis Oswald? Rene Fasel? Sergei Bubka? The response should not take long.