The German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau, reported that South Korea's Kim Un-yong, currently a IOC executive commissioner, is perfectly eligible for the IOC presidency to succeed the incumbent IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The German paper covered Mr. Kim, along with 4 other candidates and described Kim as one of the most experienced strategist and expert with harmonizing power in global sport arena.
Other German paper Die Welt also evaluated Mr. Kim as the best eligible candidate to be elected as the IOC president.
Meanwhile, US Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin gave support to Kim saying that Kim is a very smart man and understand sports.