Bach: "We will strengthen refugee support"

In Geneva this week, the IOC honorary president and Olympic Refuge Foundation chair urged participants at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review to honour Filippo Grandi's legacy 'ensuring sport reaches every person forced to flee their home'. Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees and vice-chair of the Olympic Refuge Foundation, marked his final official engagement as high commissioner by striking a sombre tone. He reflected on a year in which forced displacement has continued to rise, while also acknowledging a severely weakened humanitarian aid sector that is 'inflicting so much unnecessary pain in its wake on refugees'. Despite these...