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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 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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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland...
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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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  • 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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  • is the National Olympic Committee representing Russia. Its president is Stanislav Pozdnyakov. On 12 October 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
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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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    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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    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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    Pierre de Coubertin (category Presidents of the International Olympic Committee)
    historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee, 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 eighth 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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    The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) (Swedish: Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (SOK)) is the Swedish National Olympic Committee (NOC). The Swedish Olympic...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    of the Olympic movement. The committee has an exclusive right to represent Ukraine in the Olympic Games and other competitions of the International Olympic...
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    changed by the host nation. This requirement of seeking the approval of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) includes the artistic portion of opening...
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  • compete in the Summer Olympic Games. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the same city where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also...
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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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  • member of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) since 1986, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 1995. In 1933 the Palestine National Olympic Committee...
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    The Philippine Olympic Committee Inc. (POC) is the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines. The POC is a private, non-governmental organization...
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    The Mexican Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Mexicano) (COM) is the organization that represents Mexican athletes in the International Olympic...
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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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  • 143rd IOC Session (category International Olympic Committee sessions)
    the tenth President of the International Olympic Committee will be elected. Athens was originally selected to host the 137th IOC Session that was due...
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    Spain hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the home city of then-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch...
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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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    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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    established at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The ceremony typically starts with the entrance of the president of the International Olympic Committee and a...
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