International Olympic Committee

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Sources

1. BookSouth Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
2. WebsiteForward to Freedom: The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959–1994

expelled:

• South Africasince 15 May 1970

  Sources: South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, Forward to Freedom: The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959–1994

founded by:

• Pierre de Coubertinsince 23 Jun 1894

  Sources: The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, Olympic Games

led by:

• Avery Brundage1952 – 1972

  Sources: The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

• Demetrios Vikelas1894 – 1896

  Sources: The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, Olympic Games

• Juan Antonio Samaranch1980 – 2001

  Sources: The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, Olympedia: Olympic Games

restored:

• Jim Thorpe

  Replicas of his medals in 1983; sole champion again in 2022.

  Sources: Olympedia: Olympic Games, The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2012 Edition

Appears in11 items

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  The End of Apartheid1 item
  • Expelled from the Olympic movement · expeller15 May 1970
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  The Modern Olympic Games10 items
  • The IOC is founded at the Sorbonne · subject23 Jun 1894
  • Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon · stripped and restored15 Jul 1912
  • Berlin 1916 is cancelled · kept the numbering1916
  • Winter and Summer in the same year · voted to split25 Jan 1924
  • Chamonix 1924 · patron25 Jan 1924
  • No Games in 1940 or 1944 · counts both1940
  • “The Games must go on” · continued the Games6 Sep 1972
  • African nations walk out of Montreal · refused to banJul 1976
  • Salt Lake City 2002 · expelled bribed members8 Feb 2002
  • Tokyo 2020 is postponed · postponed the Games24 Mar 2020