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    The president of the International Olympic Committee is head of the executive board that assumes the general overall responsibility for the administration...
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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité international olympique, CIO) is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of...
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  • term-limited as President of the International Olympic Committee, will conclude his tenure as President at this session. Bach was elected President at the 125th...
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  • The President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic...
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    Henri de Baillet-Latour (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    Count of Baillet-Latour (1 March 1876 – 6 January 1942) was a Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
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    This is the list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) meetings. There has been a session during all Olympic Games except the 1900, 1904 and 1908 Summer...
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    Sigfrid Edström (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    of the Sweden-America Foundation, and 4th President of the International Olympic Committee. Edström was born in the tiny village of Morlanda, on the island...
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  • Olympic Games alternating. During Olympic Games opening ceremonies, the sitting president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will make a speech before...
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    Irina Viner (category Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class)
    making Viner the first gymnastics coach in history to receive the award. Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, personally...
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    anniversary of the International Olympic Committee, the centenary of the 1924 Summer and Winter Olympics, and the 235th anniversary of the French Revolution...
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    were the choice of the Greek Demetrius Vikelas, who was the first President of the International Olympic Committee. The anthem was performed for the first...
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    signatures of the president of the International Olympic Committee and the head of the organizing committee for each Olympics. The design of the diploma, as...
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    The Pierre de Coubertin Medal is a special decoration awarded by the International Olympic Committee that "pays tribute to institutions with a pedagogical...
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    and Olympic gold medalist. He has served as the ninth and current president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013, the first ever Olympic champion...
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    of members of the International Olympic Committee. According to the Olympic Charter, the members of the IOC "represent and promote the interests of the...
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    was the National Olympic Committee representing Russia. Its president is Stanislav Pozdnyakov. On 12 October 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
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  • contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two remaining...
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    Pierre de Coubertin (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and its second president. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was particularly...
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    Jacques Rogge (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    served as the 8th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 2013, Rogge became the IOC's honorary president, a lifetime...
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    sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001...
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    Demetrios Vikelas (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896. After a childhood...
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    official, and the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...
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    Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs (category Spanish International Olympic Committee members)
    who currently serves as the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is the son of former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch....
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    Avery Brundage (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and only non-European...
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    offered a tapping of blades in acknowledgement. Thomas Bach stepped in the next day. As President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he sent a...
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    the International Olympic Committee. It is also a member of the Pan American Sports Organization. Canadian athletes first competed at the Olympic Games...
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  • One of the gold medalists from West Germany team was Thomas Bach, who currently serves as President of the International Olympic Committee. A total of 281...
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  • a new building at the nearby Vondellaan. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, had the honour to open the facility. Aruba first...
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    were announced by the International Olympic Committee on 16 September 2015: Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome. However, the process was hit...
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    performances are discussed. The representation of women on the International Olympic Committee has historically run well behind the rate of female participation...
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