Tag: Anita DeFrantz

  • IOC announces composition of Tokyo 2020

    Lausanne, Oct 16, 2013: Composition, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has appointed IOC Vice-President John Coates as Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad ¬- Tokyo 2020; and Frank Fredericks as Chairman of the Coordination Commission for the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires 2018. Coates…

  • Alexander Zhukov elected new IOC members

    Buenos Aires – Sept 11, 2013: The final day of the 125th IOC Session taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kicked off with the election of the following nine new IOC members: -Octavian Morariu of Romania, candidature as an individual member -Bernard Rajzman of Brazil, candidature as an individual member -Mikaela Maria Antonia Cojuangco-Jaworski of…

  • Women’s sports rights advocate from Qatar

    Women’s sports rights advocate from Qatar

    Lausanne, July 01, 2013: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today honoured six women for their outstanding contributions to the development of women’s participation in sport and sports administration, during a ceremony for the 2013 IOC Women and Sport Awards in Lausanne. Qatari Ahlam Salem Mubarak Al Mana, a pioneer for women’s and girls’ sports rights…

  • Athletes’ Commission of the IOC

    Athletes’ Commission of the IOC

    London – GBR, August 11, 2012: Danka Bartekova from Slovakia (shooting), James Tomkins from Australia (rowing), Kirsty Coventry from Zimbabwe (aquatics) and Tony Estanguet from France (canoe-kayak) have been elected to the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by their peers at the London 2012 Olympic Games for a term of eight years.…

  • 5th World Conference on Women and Sport calls for more women in leadership roles

    5th World Conference, Participants in the 5th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport called on sports leaders to take a more proactive role in advancing the cause of women in and through sport as the event came to a close in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday. The three-day conference, whose theme was “Together Stronger:…