John Coates has offered the peace pipe to the "liar" he blamed for the challenge to his Australian Olympic Committee presidency.
After winning the presidency vote, Coates is now keen to mend his long-strained relations with Australian Sports Commission boss John Wylie.
Coates believes Wylie was behind ASC board member Danni Roche's failed bid for the presidency. She denies the claim.
After winning Saturday's vote over Roche 58-35 at the AOC annual general meeting, Coates says ironing out his issues with Wylie is high on his agenda.
"John and I have both been involved in business. We have had our victories, had our defeats and whatever," Coates said.
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"I made it quite clear that I will be ringing him ... I'm available again, as I have done in the past."
Coates' independent AOC and Wylie's government ASC have been at loggerheads over funding models.
The pair infamously clashed in public at an athletics meet earlier this year when Coates called Wylie a "liar" - and worse.
But both sporting organisations have new chief executives - Kate Palmer at the ASC, who took the job last December, and Matt Carroll, who started a week ago at the AOC.
Carroll will meet with Palmer in Canberra this week.
"We have set a bit of an agenda to get things going," Carroll said.
"And I have got no doubt that we will achieve a lot of good things for Australian sport, not just at the top level but also in the grassroots."
One of Carroll's other immediate jobs is to oversee an investigation into workplace practices at the AOC amid widespread bullying claims.
That review is separate to an independent panel looking into claims from Carroll's predecessor Fiona de Jong that she was bullied by media director Mike Tancred,
Tancred, who stood down pending an outcome of the claim, denies the allegations.
Carroll, a vastly experienced sports administrator with stints at Australian Rugby Union, the A-League and Australian Sailing, said he welcomed the pressing tasks within the AOC.
"I enjoy challenges," Carroll said.
"And I think the opportunity, particularly the engagement that has come through with the sports ... continue that over the next months."
Coates believed the damage from the "rigorous" election campaign could be fixed.
"I'm hoping that the Olympic membership, having experienced this, will come together," he said.
"The brand has been damaged but I think that is easily repairable."
Australia's athletes' commission, chaired by Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker, said it would hold Coates to his promise of reforming the AOC.
"The Olympics is very powerful," Hooker said.
"This campaign has been so divisive because everyone has so much passion for it.
"Certainly in our conversations with John, he understands that things have to change.
"There has to be some bridges that are repaired and he has expressed to us personally that he is going to do that.
"We are going to hold him to account."
