IOC President Jacques Rogge, © 2009 IOC All rights reserved
Copenhagen, Denmark (GenevaLunch) – Jacques Rogge, the president of the Olympic Committee, was re-elected president of the Movement by a vote of 88-1 today, 9 October for a final four-year term. Rogge said his main priority will be to concentrate on the new Olympic Youth Games, which kick off in Singapore in the summer of 2010, followed by the Youth Winter Games in Innsbruck in 2012.
Rogge has been president since 2001. He competed in the sailing events at the Games in Mexico City in 1968, in Munich in 1972, and in Montreal in 1976.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 9 October 2009.
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