IOC:
International Olympic Committee
Headquarters:
Chateau de Vidy, Switzerland
Legal
status: Private, non lucrative, recognized association
Powers:
The IOC virtually controls every International Sport Federation,
and detains every right upon the "Games of the Olympiad" and the "Olympic
Winter Games".
Administration:
Sort
of Parliament, but real decisions are taken into the Executive Committee,
15 members
How
do I become an IOC member? pYou'll have to be taken inside, invited,
by the IOC President
Members:
131. (85% men).
Italian
members: Giovanni Agenlli, Mario Pescante, Franco Carraro, Ottavio
Cinquanta, Manuela Di Centa.
And
now, what about some of them?
Juan
Antonio Samaranch
Current
IOC President is Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch-Torello, spaniard, he's
80.
He
has a wonderful past: blue-shirt falangist, fascist dictator Franco's minister
and later Catalunya president; Opus Dei member.
Go
to precise, open-minded Andrew Jennings's
pages to know more
Mohamad
Bob Hasan
One
of the worst forest loggers in the world: click
here to know him
Henry
Kissinger
Don't
you remember about him and Pinochet, him and Videla&Massera? He deserves
life-in-prison!
And
there are people now struggling to take out from him the Nobel Peace Prize
of 1973: click
here to sign the campaign!