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
Thomas Bach
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Thomas Bach is a German lawyer, sports administrator, and former foil fencer. He served as the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee, from 2013 to 2025. He was the first Olympic champ
Jacques Rogge
…2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics (Later postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic in Japan). German lawyer, former foil fencer, and Olympic gold medalist Thomas Bach was elected as the new IOC President at the session. Rogge was then made Lifetime Honorary President of the IOC, a position which he held until his…
Bach in 2024
Sign at the house of Thomas Bach, where he lived in 1953–1977, at the Sonnenplatz in Tauberbischofsheim
Like his predecessors Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge, Thomas Bach stayed at the Lausanne Palace when he was in Lausanne
Bach and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6 August 2016