Michelle Yeoh, an Oscar-winning performer from Malaysia, was elected to the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, October 17.
By 67 vote to nine, with one acquiescence, the first Asian person to get an Academy Award was chosen as the best actress for” Everything Everywhere All at Once” earlier this year.
On the last day of the 141st IOC conference in Mumbai, India, she was one of eight new users elected.
Yeoh got to her feet and put her finger on her soul when the outcome was revealed.
The Olympic vow was finally taken by her and the other recently elected members.
The 61-year-old received an IOC part decoration from Bach after being accompanied in Mumbai by her father Jean Todt, the previous leader of the racing governing body FIA.
Yeoh was referred to as” a Malaysia junior squash champion” by British Princess Anne, the IOC’s member election committee chair, prior to the vote.
” Unfortunately, her other varied skills took her away from her having career, but she had a very happy career and had always been very interested in sports.”
Yeoh achieved fame in martial arts films like” Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” after being cast opposite Pierce Brosnan in the 1997 Bond movie” Wednesday Not Dies.”
Yael Arad, Israel’s first Olympic medalist, Balazs Furjes, a Hungarian business and sports administrator, Peruvian politician Cecilia Tait, and European sports entrepreneur Michael Mronz were also elected on Tuesday.
All five had recently been put forward by the executive committee of the IOC in September as specific members.
In terms of their positions with global sporting federations, Petra Soerling of Sweden, the mind of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Kim Jae-youl of South Korea were likewise elected.
Mehrez Boussayene, the Tunisian Olympic Committee’s chair, was also chosen as an ex-officio part.
When the eight were put forward in September, Bach stated that” these individuals add value to the function of the IOC because of their knowledge and different expertise in diverse fields.”