Olegario Vázquez Raña's story - "Shooting Sport: my passion, my life"

 

Olegario Vázquez Raña has been leading the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) for 38 years. On 30 November 2018 he steps down and retires following a decision he made public in 2014, as the ISSF General Assembly elects its new leadership. ISSF TV met him in Mexico City, where Mr. Vázquez Raña opened the doors of his office to tell the story of how he got involved in the sport by chance, and ended up being the longest-standing ISSF President and the force behind the changes that the sport experienced in the last four decades. The video features also exclusive interviews with the IOC President Thomas Bach, ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber, ISSF Vice President Gary Anderson, ISSF Executive Committee Members Robert Mitchell and Alexandros Dimakakos, ISSF Administrative Council Member Derek Ivy, India's first Olympic Gold medalist Abhinav Bindra, the President of the Shooting Confederation of the Americas Carlos Sliva Monterroso, and Olegario Vazquez Raña's wife Maria de Los Angeles Aldir de Vazquez, their son Olegario Vazquez Aldir, and their daughters Monica and Maria.