Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian actress to win an Oscar, is set to become a member of the International Olympic Committee after being included on a list of eight new proposed members on Friday.<\/p>\n
Yeoh won the Oscar for best lead actress earlier this year for her role in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/em> and her proposed IOC membership will be ratified at its session in Mumbai next month.<\/p>\n Yeoh, former Malaysian junior squash champion, made her Hollywood breakthrough when she was cast as the first ethnic Chinese Bond girl in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies<\/em> opposite Pierce Brosnan.<\/p>\n She also starred in martial arts movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon<\/em>, the 2005 period drama Memoirs of a Geisha<\/em> and the 2018 romantic comedy, Crazy Rich Asians<\/em>.<\/p>\n She joins Israel’s first Olympic medallist, Yael Arad, Hungarian businessman and sports administrator Balasz Furjes, Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta, a former Olympic medallist and politician from Peru, and German sports entrepreneur Michael Mronz as the five proposed individual members by the IOC Executive Board.<\/p>\n Sweden’s Petra Soerling, head of the International Table Tennis Federation, and South Korean Kim Jae-youl, President of the International Skating Union, are up for election linked to their function as international federation heads.<\/p>\n Mehrez Boussayene, President of the Tunisian Olympic Committee, is also up for election as an ex-officio member.<\/p>\n “These candidates bring added value to the work of the IOC because of their experience and diverse expertise in different walks of life,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement.<\/p>\n “What they all have in common is their love of sport and their strong belief in the Olympic values and what the IOC stands for.”<\/p>\n The IOC is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the leader of the Olympic movement, according to its website. “The vision of the International Olympic Committee is to Build a Better World through Sport,” it says. <\/p>\n