Jacques Rogge
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge, KCMG; born 2 May 1942) is a Belgian sports administrator and physician who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committeefrom 2001 to 2013. In 2013, the IOC announced that Rogge would become their Honorary President...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 May 1942
CityGhent, Belgium
athletes compete duty measures minority small strongest thousands trap
For the thousands of athletes who compete cleanly and fairly, we have a duty to put in place the strongest measures to trap the small minority who cheat.
expected
Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.
athlete brings experience highest leader nearly olympic organizing skills sports unique
Denis brings a unique combination of skills and experience, as a medal-winning, three-time Olympic athlete and a sports leader with nearly 30 years of experience organizing international competitions of the highest level,
athletes bad example habits languages olympic peacefully perfect political races truce village
The Olympic Truce will not be eternal. After the games, bad habits will return. But this village is a perfect example of what the truce exemplifies. Here, athletes of different religions, political systems, races and languages live peacefully together.
differ good
If they have the same conclusion, no problem. But if they differ it would be good to go to the independent observers.
award course ideal merits olympic
In recognition of your outstanding merits in the course of world sport and your faithfulness to the Olympic ideal ... I award you with the Olympic Order,
betting football influence issues might sports
It's an international problem, it's not just the NHL. There is a lot of betting where there is an influence on sports results. There have been issues on betting on football (soccer), there have been issues of betting in tennis, there might be issues in other sports.
centre city
This is really in the city itself. It is in the centre of the city.
inclined might questioned whoever winner
Whoever wins, it's going to be a prestigious city. I'm often questioned who might be the winner and I'm always inclined to say the winner is the IOC.
athlete role support
We cannot, of course, support what he is saying. An athlete must be a role model. It's about the responsibilities you have as an athlete.
beijing chance games olympic understand work
We will work with them at the Olympic Games at Beijing and see if there's a chance to come back. I understand the disappointment of those who pleaded for the reinstatement.
athens baseball people problems softball vancouver worry
We had problems in Athens where people didn't know anything about softball or baseball or fencing. But I don't worry about Vancouver at all.
carried indeed ran several suspicions time wall
We indeed had suspicions of fraud, but we never had any proof. We carried out inquiries several times, but each time we ran into a wall of silence.
absolutely copenhagen membership session speaking universal wins
We are speaking of a sporting session in 2009 and it will not have an impact. If Copenhagen wins it will be from membership that is absolutely universal from 70 countries.