Jacques Rogge
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Jacques Jean Marie, Count Rogge was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete, and physician, who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013. In 2013,
Rogge in 2014
Jacques Rogge with Juan Antonio Samaranch and Vladimir Putin following Rogge's election as IOC President in 2001
Grave of Jacques Rogge in Sint-Martens-Latem
Rogge decorated by Dmitry Medvedev into the Order of Friendship in 2011
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime who served as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee from 1
Jacques Rogge
…his successor a gold Olympic Order. Rogge was elected as President of the IOC on 16 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow as the successor to Juan Antonio Samaranch, who had previously led the IOC since 1980. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Rogge became the first ever IOC President to stay in the…
Samaranch in 1998
Samaranch (middle) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 1987
Samaranch (left) and Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (c. 1982–1984)
Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic Hall, formerly Zetra Olympic Hall, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina