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2024.06.08 22:47 GMT+8

Face to Face: Thomas Bach - President, International Olympic Committee

Updated 2024.06.08 22:47 GMT+8
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In just a few weeks' time, the torch will be lit in Paris to begin the 33rd Olympic summer games. It's promising to be the largest and most sustainable games ever, with around 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees expected to compete.

But against a backdrop of global conflict, and huge arguments in sport over issues like prize money and transgender athletes, what will Paris 2024 say about the state of the Olympic movement?

To find out, in this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann heads to Lausanne in Switzerland to the Headquarters of the International Olympic Committee to speak to its President, Thomas Bach.

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