The IOC leads the promotion of Olympism in accordance with the Olympic Charter. |
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As a result of the investigation, ten members of the IOC were expelled and another ten were sanctioned. |
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This was the first expulsion or sanction for corruption in the more than a century the IOC had existed. |
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Stricter rules were adopted for future bids, and caps were put into place as to how much IOC members could accept from bid cities. |
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Additionally, new term and age limits were put into place for IOC membership, and fifteen former Olympic athletes were added to the committee. |
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In August 2008, the IOC issued DMCA take down notices on Tibetan Protest videos of the Beijing Olympics hosted on YouTube. |
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In February 2013, the IOC did not include wrestling as one of its core Olympic sports for the Summer Olympic program for the 2020 Olympics. |
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Elected to the IOC presidency in the first round of voting on 16 July 1980 at the 83rd Session, he succeeded Lord Killanin on 3 August that year. |
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He acceded to the IOC presidency during the troubled political period of the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow. |
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At his instigation, the IOC became involved in various initiatives to promote women and sport. |
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On 16 July 2001, he left the seat of the IOC presidency to Jacques Rogge and became Honorary President for Life. |
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The IOC does not currently recognize these games as being official Olympic Games, although many historians do. |
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The IOC President Jacques Rogge characterized Greece's organisation as outstanding and its security precautions as flawless. |
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In October 2009, the IOC included golf and rugby sevens as part of the Olympic program for Rio de Janeiro. |
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In March 1946 the IOC, through a postal vote, gave the summer Games to London and the winter competition to St Moritz. |
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These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Jacques Rogge. |
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On 6 June 2005, the IOC released its evaluation reports for the five candidate cities. |
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On 6 July 2005, the final selection was announced at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. |
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Following IOC rules, people applied for tickets from the NOC of their country of residence. |
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There was an appeal, but the IOC voted to uphold the decision, and the two sports were last scheduled for the 2008 Olympics. |
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On 2 August 2015 at the 128th IOC Session, South Sudan was granted full recognition of its National Olympic Committee. |
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Under the IOC charter, the Olympic Council of Ireland is responsible for the entire island of Ireland. |
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In 1951, the IOC made the same switch at its Vienna conference, after IOC member Lord Burghley had consulted the British Foreign Office. |
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On September 7, 2013, the IOC selected Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. |
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In 2013, the IOC announced that Rogge would become their Honorary President. |
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In September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires a new IOC President was elected. |
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Jacques Rogge's IOC Presidency came to an end at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires. |
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This table was thus compiled by adding up single entries from the IOC database. |
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The results are attributed to the IOC country code as currently displayed by the IOC database. |
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The Russian Federation and the Russian Empire are often combined outside of IOC sources. |
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For the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the FA persuaded the IOC to include a football tournament, which they organised. |
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The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement, with the Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority. |
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The IOC has had to adapt to a variety of economic, political, and technological advancements. |
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The IOC also determines the Olympic programme, consisting of the sports to be contested at the Games. |
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The IOC intended for subsequent Games to be rotated to various host cities around the world. |
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These Games were, but are not now, officially recognised by the IOC and no Intercalated Games have been held since. |
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In 2009, the UN General Assembly granted the IOC Permanent Observer status. |
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The IOC desired to expand this list of sports to encompass other winter activities. |
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The IOC mandated that the Winter Games be celebrated every four years on the same year as their summer counterpart. |
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The IOC has often been criticised for being an intractable organisation, with several members on the committee for life. |
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The IOC pursued an investigation which led to the resignation of four members and expulsion of six others. |
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The documentary claimed it was possible to bribe IOC members into voting for a particular candidate city. |
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The allegations also served to sour many IOC members against Sion's bid and potentially helped Turin to capture the host city nomination. |
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As president of the IOC from 1952 to 1972, Avery Brundage rejected all attempts to link the Olympics with commercial interest. |
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When Juan Antonio Samaranch was elected IOC president in 1980 his desire was to make the IOC financially independent. |
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Superpowers jockeyed for political supremacy, and the IOC wanted to take advantage of this heightened interest via the broadcast medium. |
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The IOC also expanded the swimming and diving programs, both popular sports with a broad base of television viewers. |
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Specific criticism was levelled at the IOC for market saturation during the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Games. |
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There are sports recognised by the IOC that are not included on the Olympic program. |
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In October 2009 the IOC voted to instate golf and rugby union as Olympic sports for the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympic Games. |
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The 114th IOC Session, in 2002, limited the Summer Games programme to a maximum of 28 sports, 301 events, and 10,500 athletes. |
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His medals were posthumously restored by the IOC in 1983 on compassionate grounds. |
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The IOC conceded in the first two cases, but refused to ban New Zealand on the grounds that rugby was not an Olympic sport. |
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However, if the NOCs and IF involved agree, then the IOC Executive Board may reduce or cancel this period. |
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The IOC is only concerned with issues of citizenship and nationality after individual nations have granted citizenship to athletes. |
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The IOC does not keep statistics of medals won, but National Olympic Committees and the media record medal statistics as a measure of success. |
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On the basis of this technical evaluation, the IOC Executive Board selects the applicants that will proceed to the candidature stage. |
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The IOC members gathered in the Session have the final vote on the host city. |
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The IOC was created by Pierre de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president. |
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The IOC organises the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, held in summer and winter, every four years. |
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This decision enables the IOC to be directly involved in the UN Agenda and to attend UN General Assembly meetings where it can take the floor. |
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The IOC Session is the general meeting of the members of the IOC, held once a year in which each member has one vote. |
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For most of its existence, the IOC was controlled by members who were selected by other members. |
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In 1982 the IOC drafted ISL Marketing a Swiss sports marketing company, to develop a global marketing programme for the Olympic Movement. |
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In 1989, one of the staff members at ISL Marketing, Michael Payne, moved to the IOC and became the organisation's first marketing director. |
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The IOC distributes TOP programme revenue to each of the NOCs throughout the world. |
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The IOC has 4 major approaches to addressing environmental health concerns during the construction and competitions of the Olympic Games. |
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Fourthly, the IOC has every host city collaborate with the United Nations to work towards addressing environmental health objectives. |
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Ultimately, the IOC uses these four major approaches in an attempt to minimize the negative environmental health concerns of a host city. |
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The IOC president for these Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. |
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An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have the last word. |
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However, by 30 July 2008, IOC spokesman Kevan Gosper had to retract this optimistic statement, announcing that the Internet would indeed be censored for journalists. |
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At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Rogge became the first ever IOC President to stay in the Olympic village, thereby enjoying closer contact with the athletes. |
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When named, they did not become the representatives of their respective countries to the IOC, but rather the opposite, IOC members in their respective countries. |
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The IOC elected the Greek writer Demetrius Vikelas as its first president. |
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Nevertheless, the IOC held to the traditional rules regarding amateurism. |
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In 1972 and 1976 a large number of African countries threatened the IOC with a boycott to force them to ban South Africa and Rhodesia, because of their segregationist regimes. |
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Among the reforms to the running of the IOC, he imposed a new financial policy which allowed for the increase in revenues and the diversification of resources. |
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At the time the Irish War of Independence was under way, and the IOC rejected Keane's proposal, pending the settlement of the underlying political situation. |
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International groups attempted to pressure the IOC to reject Beijing's bid in protest of the state of human rights in the People's Republic of China. |
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The IOC allows 3,500 athletes and 875 officials to participate at the Summer Youth Games, and 970 athletes and 580 officials at the Winter Youth Games. |
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The IOC also contributes Olympic broadcast revenue to Olympic Solidarity, an IOC organisation that provides financial support to NOCs with the greatest need. |
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In 1998, it was reported that several IOC members had taken bribes from members of the Salt Lake City bid committee for the hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics. |
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In this form, the applicants must give assurances that they will comply with the Olympic Charter and with any other regulations established by the IOC Executive Committee. |
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The precise figures are unknown since Nagano, after the IOC asked that the entertainment expenditures not be made public, destroyed the financial records. |
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The evaluation of the filled questionnaires by a specialised group provides the IOC with an overview of each applicant's project and their potential to host the Games. |
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A prominent IOC member, Marc Hodler, strongly connected with the rival bid of Sion, Switzerland, alleged bribery of IOC officials by members of the Turin Organising Committee. |
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The continued success of the TOP programme and Olympic broadcast agreements has enabled the IOC to provide increased support for the NOCs with each Olympic quadrennium. |
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Once the candidate cities are selected, they must submit to the IOC a bigger and more detailed presentation of their project as part of a candidature file. |
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Brundage's resistance to this revenue stream meant the IOC left organising committees to negotiate their own sponsorship contracts and use the Olympic symbols. |
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Keane stated that it was too late to change the flag registered with the IOC, but was hopeful that the coat of arms of Ireland would be adopted afterwards. |
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Secondly, every candidate city must provide information to the IOC on environmental health issues like air quality and environmental impact assessments. |
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The IOC responded by making a number of changes to the Olympic program. |
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The IOC is the supreme authority of the worldwide modern Olympic movement. |
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However, in October, the IOC revealed no action could be taken since the relevant rules do not allow any disciplinary proceedings against a deceased person. |
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The IOC also takes a percentage of all sponsorship and broadcast income. |
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The president of the organising committee and the IOC president make their closing speeches, the Games are officially closed, and the Olympic flame is extinguished. |
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After the medals are given out by an IOC member, the national flags of the three medallists are raised while the national anthem of the gold medallist's country plays. |
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During the first half of the 20th century the IOC ran on a small budget. |
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