If we are to believe the information provided by the German government, and if Thomas Bach has not voluntarily surrendered the last of his many diplomatic passports, then the 70-year-old IOC president, long-standing business lobbyist with numerous secret contracts and former FDP member, will continue to enjoy the many benefits of a German diplomatic passport until 17 August 2026. But perhaps Bach has already applied for and received one or more other passports. Who knows?
Transparency has never been a friend of the fencing master from tiny Tauberbischofsheim, who apparently suffers from a God complex.
In his work The God Complex: The Belief That One is God and the Resulting Character Traits, British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones analysed megalomaniacal fantasies such as the one that overcame Bach in an interview.
