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He announced his intention to step down after the 1924 Summer Olympics, which proved much more successful than the first attempt in Paris in 1900, and was succeeded as IOC president in 1925 by Belgian Henri de Baillet-Latour. De Coubertin remained an honorary president of the IOC until his death in 1937.
Thomas Bach (born 29 December 1953) is a German lawyer, former foil fencer, and Olympic gold medalist.He has served as the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013, the first ever Olympic champion to be elected to that position.
For the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) he was vice-president from 2012 until 2014, then associate vice-president from 2013 until 2017, when he was then elected President. [7] [8] He became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2019, and was a member of the IOC Olympic Channel Commission in 2020. [7] [8]
U.S. Olympic Committee Chief Executive Scott Blackmun is resigning for health reasons, the organization said on Wednesday, following months of sustained criticism in the wake of the sex abuse ...
Haruyuki Takahashi, a former member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, appeared in a Tokyo district court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to taking bribes tied to the Games. A former ...
The 144th IOC Session is an upcoming IOC Session scheduled to be held in Olympia, Greece on 18–21 March 2025. [1] At this session, the tenth president of the International Olympic Committee will be elected.
The fight over Jordan Chiles' bronze medal is not over yet. Chiles' attorneys announced Monday that they have filed a formal appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal over the results in the women's ...
Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; [1] December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.