According to foreign media sources, on August 30, the official website of the International Olympic Committee issued a statement saying that jacques Logue, former president of the International Olympic Committee, died at the age of 79. According to sources, Jacques Logue was elected to the IOC Executive Board in 1998 and became the eighth President of the IOC in July 2001 for a term until 2013.
Image source: Screenshot of the IOC's official website.
Logue showed great athletic talent at a young age, having been a member of the Belgian rugby team, winning one world championship in sailing, two world runners-up, and competing in three Olympic Games in 1968, 1972 and 1976.
He is also an excellent surgeon with a doctorate in medicine, fluent in Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish and other languages, and has a special love for modern art.
Since his election as President of the European Olympic Committee in 1989, Logue has had a rapid rise in influence in the international sports world, becoming a member of the IOC in 1991, an IOC Executive In 1998, and three years later in Moscow in July 2001, he became the eighth President of the IOC.
As the first president of the International Olympic Committee in the 21st century, Logue said at the beginning of his term that he would continue to lead the Olympic Movement in the right direction, and he believed that reasonable control of the scale of the Olympic Games and the opportunity for more cities to host the Olympic Games are the future trend of the Olympic Movement.
Source: China News Network
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