The WSF has recently established an independent Ethics Panel at the suggestion of the IOC.

In 2000 the IOC Ethics Commission decided " after an exhaustive examination of the facts and elements, not to pursue the examination of the Slavkov affair.

The IOC Ethics Commission immediately recommended that Ivan Slavkov is provisionally deprived " of all the rights, prerogatives and functions deriving from his membership of the IOC " throughout their investigation and that the accreditations of Goran Takač, Gabor Komyathy, Mahmood El Farnawani and Muttaleb Ahmad are immediately withdrawn for the duration of the Olympic Games in Athens.

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In 1985 Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles agreed to admit Comoros as the fourth member of the Indian Ocean Commission ( IOC ), an organization established in 1982 to encourage regional cooperation.

* Indian Ocean Commission, generally COI, but according to World Bank as well IOC

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).

The AAU decided to withdraw Thorpe's amateur status retroactively and asked the International Olympic Commission ( IOC ) to do the same.

In the area of science Israel is an active member of the Man and the Biosphere Programme ( MAB ), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission ( IOC ), the International Hydrological Programme ( IHP ), the International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East ( SESAME ), and the International Geoscience Programme ( IGCP ).

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.

These files are carefully studied by the IOC Evaluation Commission, a group composed of IOC members, representatives of international sport federations, NOCs, athletes, the International Paralympic Committee, and international experts in various fields.

The Evaluation Commission communicates the results of its inspections in a report sent to the IOC members up to one month before the electing IOC Session.

After a period of analysis by the IOC, the cities were visited by the IOC Evaluation Commission, consisting of twelve members and chaired by Moroccan IOC member Nawal El Moutawakel.

On February 23, 2006, Koivu was elected by his fellow Olympic competitors as a member of the Athletes ' Commission of the IOC.

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission ( IOC ) was established by resolution 2. 31 adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO.

The UIO, established in January 1998 under the aegis of the Indian Ocean Commission ( IOC ), is essentially a network of tertiary education and research institutions of the five member states, namely Comores, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles.

Such sports, if eligible under the terms of the Olympic Charter, may apply for inclusion in the program of future Games, through a recommendation by the IOC Olympic Programme Commission, followed by a decision of the IOC executive Board and a vote of the IOC Session.

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

Dorst was a member of the Académie des Sciences, one of the founders and second president of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos, president of the 16th International Ornithological Congress ( IOC ), and vice president of the Commission of Protection of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ).

The historical development of policy associated with gene doping began in 2001 when the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) Medical Commission met to discuss the implications of gene therapy for sport.

The success of the event was overwhelming and the IOC decided to reintroduce tennis as a full medal sport at Seoul in 1988.

In February 2006 the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ruled that curling was a full part of the Olympic program, and have included the medals awarded in the official count.

Since IOC members were forbidden from visiting the candidate cities ( in the interests of reducing bribery ), the 109th IOC Session elected a special body, the Selection College, to choose finalist cities from the pool of candidate cities after each had made their final presentations to the full IOC Session.

The full IOC Session then voted on the cities chosen as finalist cities by the Selection College.

Although six cities launched candidacies and made presentations to the full IOC Session, the Selection College chose only two cities to go forward to be voted upon by the full IOC Session: Sion and Turin.

The IOC as a whole gave the Greek NOC full support for the organization.

On 28 May, at the meeting of the IOC in Berlin, the Swedish representatives declared that they had full financial support for hosting the next Games in Stockholm.

The IOC board has granted full recognition to the East Timorese Olympic Committee ( COTL ).

On 13 August 2009 it was announced that the IOC executive board was recommending rugby sevens for inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games and on 9 October 2009 the full IOC, at its 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, voted to include Rugby Sevens in the 2016 games.

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1908 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1904 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1900 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1896 Summer Olympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

But the IOC as a whole gave the Greek NOC full support for the organisation.

The IOC board has granted full recognition to the East Timorese Olympic Committee ( COTL ).

The adoption of rugby sevens and golf was recommended to the full IOC council by its executive board ahead of squash, karate, roller sports, baseball and softball in August 2009.

However, Andorra la Vella was not selected by the IOC as a candidate city, following the evaluation report of an IOC commission.

The Parisian bid suffered two setbacks during the inspection: a number of strikes and demonstrations coincided with the visit, and a report was released stating that Guy Drut, IOC member and one of the key members of Paris's bid team, faced charges over alleged political party financial corruption.

The candidature scored the second highest mark of 8. 3 in the IOC report, ranking first in six categories.

The Evaluation Commission communicates the results of its inspections in a report sent to the IOC members up to one month before the electing IOC Session.

As the headliner, Lenny Kravitz got to play the venue a second time, with Jorge Benjor, Macy Gray, O Rappa and Pharrell as the main opening acts, on October 2, 2009, 100, 000 people filled the beach for a huge beach party as the IOC announced Rio would be hosting the 2016 Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ( French: Comité international olympique, CIO ) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

The Games continued until mounting pressure on the IOC forced a suspension some 12 hours after the first athlete had been murdered.

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.

The work of the IOC increasingly focused on the planning the 1896 Athens Games, and de Coubertin played a background role as Greek authorities took the lead in logistical organisation of the Games in Greece itself, offering technical advice such as a sketch of a design of a velodrome to be used in cycling competitions.

Participation in past World Games is included in the evaluation criteria used to select new Olympic sports adopted by the IOC on August 12, 2004.

The IOC also announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year starting from 1992.

This article gives the final medalists as decided on by the IOC in early 2004.

Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona ( two years before the Nazis came to power ).

The only other time this occurred was at the inaugural IOC Session in Paris, France, on 24 April 1894.

* GEOHAB: The IOC-SCOR International Research Programme on the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms and IOC of UNESCO

The first regulation voted on by the new IOC in 1894 was to allow only amateur athletes to participate in the 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, 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.

In a ceremony on January 18, 1983, the IOC presented two of Thorpe's children, Gale and Bill, with commemorative medals.

In 1921, on the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equality for winter sports, and after much discussion it was decided to organize an " international week of winter sport " in 1924 in Chamonix.

The IOC decided that curling was officially part of the program, after the Glasgow Herald newspaper filed a claim on behalf of the families of the team.

Its first practical application was as a second processor to the BBC Micro, where it was used to develop the simulation software to finish work on the support chips ( VIDC, IOC, MEMC ) and to speed up the operation of the CAD software used in developing ARM2.

During his IOC term, he made liberal use of the company's executive jet, frequently flying business associates and friends on fishing trips.

Atlanta was selected on September 18, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, over Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne, and Toronto at the 96th IOC Session.

Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles, which later hosted the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games respectively.

The vote occurred on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, Netherlands.