The IOC offers the following Video News Release to all news agencies, broadcasters and online news platforms free of charge. STORY SCRIPT: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has thanked the President of the Republic of Indonesia and Chair of the G20 Leaders’ Summit Joko Widodo for the support to the political neutrality of sport and for emphasising the unifying power of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mr Bach was a guest of the G20 Summit, bringing together the leaders from 19 of the world’s major economies plus the European Union, and addressed the G20 leaders on the opening day of the summit yesterday.
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