IOC President Avery Brundage made little reference to the murdered athletes during a speech praising the strength of the Olympic movement and equating the attack on the Israeli sportsmen with the recent arguments about encroaching professionalism and disallowing Rhodesia's participation in the Games, which outraged many listeners.

Following the Congress, the institutions created there began to be formalised into the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), with Demetrius Vikelas as its first President.

Coubertin remained Honorary President of the IOC until he died in 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The 25th anniversary of the founding of the International Savate Federation, in March 2010, was celebrated with a visit to Lausanne, to meet with IOC President Jacques Rogge.

This reinstatement was credited by the efforts by the then ITF President Philippe Chatrier, ITF General Secretary David Gray and ITF Vice President Pablo Llorens, and support from IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch.

Lord Burghley, a gold medal winner at the 1928 Olympics, member of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), and President of the Amateur Athletics Association was named Chairman of the Organising and Executive Committees.

Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain ( 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010 ), known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló (), was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) from 1980 to 2001.

Samaranch was elected President of the IOC at the 83rd IOC Session, held in Moscow prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics – between 15 and 18 July 1980.

A public statement by IOC President Jacques Rogge dismissed these accusations, stating that the competition had been fair.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, President of the IOC and founder of the modern Olympic movement, won the gold medal for literature.

At the medal ceremony after his win at the 2000 Summer Olympics Redgrave was presented with a gold Olympic pin by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in recognition of his winning gold at 5 consecutive Olympic Games.

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, MBE, TD ( 30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999 ), was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

The agreement was signed on March 23 in Lausanne by Shen Chia-ming, the President of Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the President of the IOC.

Later, because of this incident, the rules were changed and the President of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, presented Tisdall with a Waterford crystal rose bowl with the image of him knocking over the last hurdle etched into the glass.

De Baillet-Latour was elected IOC President after the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, Pierre de Coubertin, became Honorary President in 1925.

After the 1972 retirement of IOC President Avery Brundage, the Olympic amateurism rules were steadily relaxed and in many areas amount only to technicalities and lip service.

He was the first President of the IOC Medical Commission and served from 1961 to 1967.

Its current President is former Australian finance minister John Fahey, who in 2008 succeeded Dick Pound, a former IOC vice-president and outspoken opponent of drugs in sport.

His music includes a number of specially composed fanfares and processionals to accompany the arrival of the IOC President, the lighting of the Olympic cauldron and to precede the Olympic oaths, and he is responsible for the soundtrack to the entire ‘ flame sequence ’ of the ceremony.

With the intermixing of sports and politics, the body was originally conceived by International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) President Juan Antonio Samaranch to deal with disputes arising during the Olympics.

When he spoke during the opening ceremonies, Jacques Rogge, presiding over his first olympics as IOC president, told the athletes of the United States, the host country:

The 2004 summer games were hailed as " unforgettable, dream games " by IOC president Jacques Rogge, and left Athens with a significantly improved infrastructure, including a new airport, ring road, and subway system.

International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) president Jacques Rogge announced that it would be an Olympic sport at the 2012 Games in London.

On 1 July 2005, IOC president Jacques Rogge, when asked who the winner would be, told the assembled press, " I cannot predict it since I don't know how the IOC members will vote.

Her medal ceremony was attended by fellow countryman and IOC president Jacques Rogge.

IOC presidents Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge both credit specifically Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki for the success of the games.

In February 2012 IOC President Jacques Rogge told reporters that rollersports are one of eight sports in consideration for the 2020 Olympics.

In March 2011, he was appointed by IOC President Jacques Rogge to coordinate the IOC ’ s relief effort to Japan, following an earthquake and tsunami in the country.

IOC president Jacques Rogge heads the exclusive TV Rights and New Media Commission, but the organization of bidding falls to Carrion, who meets regularly with the networks to stoke interest in airing Sochi 2014 and Rio de Janeiro 2016.

o 8 February 2010, after a meeting between IOC president Jacques Rogge and Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates, it was agreed the green and gold flag featuring a kangaroo wearing boxing gloves could stay.

IOC president Jacques Rogge said, " There is a discrepancy there, everyone agrees with that.

Local sailor Griselda Khng handed an envelope holding the result of the vote to IOC president Jacques Rogge, who announced: " The winner is London ".

" He added: " Forty years after the saddest moment in Olympic history-when eleven Israeli athletes and sports officials and a German police officer were killed by Palestinian terrorists-it would have been an excellent opportunity to show to everyone that the sports world stands united against terrorism ... Nobody wants to ' politicize ' the Olympic Games, as the IOC seems to suggest, but Baron Rogge and his colleagues on the IOC Executive have utterly failed-or refused-to grasp the importance of such a symbolic act.

Once this In-Orbit Validation ( IOV ) phase has been completed, additional satellites will be launched to reach Initial Operational Capability ( IOC ) around mid-decade.

The IOC has declined, saying that to introduce a specific reference to the victims could " alienate other members of the Olympic community ," according to the BBC.

Its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, following a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, it has remained in the Olympic program at least through 2012.

In spite of the event's strong pedigree in the modern Olympics, and its status as the only event created specifically for the modern Olympic Games, its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, keeps it in the Olympic program at least until 2012.

He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) since 1990 and currently chairs the Finance Commission and is a member of the IOC ’ s Marketing, TV and Internet Rights Commissions.

In its role as an anabolic agent, HGH has been abused by competitors in sports since the 1970s, and it has been banned by the IOC and NCAA.

Since then the split ( but not the placement of the falcons next to the parrots or passerines ) has been adopted by the American Ornithologists ' Union's South American Classification Committee ( SACC ), its North American Classification Committee ( NACC ), and the International Ornithological Congress ( IOC ).

According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen.

*** Pterodroma ( arminjoniana ) heraldica, Herald Petrel – recognized by the IOC, however the SACC has not recognized the split as of yet.

The IDBF, whilst a Member of the GAISF, is not presently an Olympic Federation of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) but will be applying for this status when it has the 75 Member Countries or Territories that meet the criteria needed for IOC recognition and inclusion in an Olympic Games.

This taxonomy has been followed by some authorities, for example the IOC World Bird List.

The North and South American Committees of the AOU and the IOC have voted on or before July 2011 to split the American forms into a new species Common Gallinule, however, no other committee has voted to change taxonomy yet.

There has been some financial conflict between the USOC and International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), with some pointing out the frequent leadership changes of USOC, and USOC trying to broadcast the Olympics using its own television network, which the IOC discouraged.

Whistler was the Host Mountain Resort of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the first time the IOC has bestowed that designation on a community.

There is Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) from 1980 to 2001: his son, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001, while his daughter, Maria Teresa Samaranch Salisachs, has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005.

These Games marked the first time the Paralympic Winter Games were held in the same location as the Winter Olympics, a tradition that has continued through an agreement of cooperation between the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) and the International Paralympic Committee ( IPC ).

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best placed athletes in each event of the 1896 and 1900 Games.

The IOC dictates the physical properties of the medals and has the final decision about the finished design.