fundamentally

But fundamentally, the crux of the problem persists.

If any leader were to take a vote to put them in office for some temporary period of time to be a total transfer of power from the people to them, they will fundamentally misunderstand democracy, and if we allow them to do that, they will fundamentally destroy democracy.

Our task is to recognize the imperfections, to accept that the rules are part of our journey together, that they don’t fundamentally negate that an election took place and somebody won it under the rules that existed at the time.

Ian Bassin: First, let’s talk about what it means to have someone elected through a democratic process who has shown themselves to be fundamentally an opponent of the democratic process.

"I think there are some changes that need to be made and fundamentally around just enabling the membership, the athletes, the National Olympic Committees, the international federations, partners, broadcasters, to have greater skin in the game and to help structure the future," he said.