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
Jacques Rogge quotes about
achieved athens chinese last olympics results shown sports year
The results that you achieved at the Athens Olympics last year have shown Chinese sports is really getting to the top.
deserve moment turn
Athletes, I turn to you now. This is the moment you deserve to enjoy,
bid final good madrid reaching round short votes voting
Madrid had a very good bid and was only two votes short of reaching the final round of voting.
convince movement second sports
Then would still come, of course, the second part. The sports movement would have to convince the governments.
countries joint marches
The two countries have already had joint marches but it is still very different to have a joint team.
hollywood scenario
It is a saga. Not even Hollywood could come up with a scenario like it.
financial future movement olympic
I can say that the financial future of the Olympic movement is secure.
canadian committee corporate hand olympic program supported
The new program of the Canadian Olympic Committee 'Own the Podium,' which is supported on one hand by the government, but on the other hand the corporate world, has yielded already unbelievable results.
believed confidence due expressed extremely finish greek happy president time
I'm an extremely happy president of the IOC. We always expressed our confidence in our Greek friends. I've always said I believed there was enough time to finish the preparations in due time. Many did not believe me.
answer came couple found later paid problem three time
I paid him three visits. Each time I came with a problem and each time he found me an answer not later than a couple of days.
assemble beijing call celebrate closed declare four games youth
I declare the Games of the 28th Olympiad closed and, in accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now at Beijing to celebrate with us there the Games of the 29th Olympiad.
excluded wants
If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.
crime ethics question rather
It is a question of sporting ethics rather than a question of crime and criminality.
angry
I am more than disappointed, I am an angry man.