{"id":1429,"date":"2017-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\/publish-79\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:33:26","slug":"leaders-podcast-kit-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\/leaders-podcast-kit-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Podcast: Kit McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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When will the Olympics reach a 50\/50 gender balance? Is esports really a viable Olympic programme proposition? Can China realistically achieve its objective of introducing 300 million people to winter sports participation by 2022?<\/span><\/h4>\n

These questions, plus a fair number of others, are tackled in the latest edition of the Leaders Podcast with IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell, who spoke to James Emmett over a jasmine tea in a hotel lobby in Beijing, hours before the final round of the\u00a0Infiniti 2017 Air and Style Beijing FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup event.<\/span><\/p>\n

McConnell worked on the organising committee for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, moving to Switzerland thereafter to take a role in the sports department at the IOC. He joined rugby’s global governing body, then the International Rugby Board, in 2002, and was Rugby World Cup Tournament Director for 11 years, before rejoining the IOC in 2013 as Sports Director.<\/span><\/p>\n