Former President Jacques Rogge, who served as President of the IOC = International Olympic Committee until 2013, has disappeared.
I was 79 years old.
This was announced by the IOC on the 29th.
Former Chairman Roge is a Belgian doctor who has participated in the Summer Olympics three times as a sailing athlete.
After that, after working as chairman of the Belgian Olympic Committee, he became the eighth chairman in 2001 after former chairman Samaranch, who served as chairman for more than 20 years and promoted the commercialization of the Olympics. He was president of the IOC for 12 years until the year.
In the meantime, we have set a practical upper limit on the number of athletes to curb the bloat of the Olympic Games, and have also worked on reviewing the competitions.
In addition, we worked to strengthen the crackdown on doping violations with the aim of creating a clean sports world, and contributed to the creation of the Youth Olympic Games to train younger generation athletes.
He is also known as the president who read the name of "Tokyo", which was decided as the host city in 2020, at the last IOC general meeting as president in Buenos Aires in 2013.
On the 29th, the IOC announced the death of former President Roge with the words "deep sadness."
Among them, President Bach said, "He was a great president who supported the modernization and reform of the IOC. Especially, the creation of the Youth Olympic Games is memorable for people. He is also an ardent supporter of clean sports and an ardent supporter of clean sports. We continued to fight the evil of doping violations. We would like to express our deepest condolences for the loss of the former president, a great friend and passionate fan of sports in the Olympic world as a whole. "