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1894

International Olympic Committee, organization formed in Paris in 1894 to conduct, promote, and regulate the modern Olympic Games (q.v.).

1896

By the time of the Athens Games in 1896, the IOC had added two members.

1903

He had been part of the IOC since 1903.

1908

Participating countries had anywhere from one to three representatives on the IOC. Membership criteria were formalized at the IOC's Tenth Session in London in 1908.

The 1908 London Games were more successful than the Athens Games, although strained by political disputes between Russia and Finland, and Great Britain and Ireland.

1912

1912: The first official Olympic memorabilia is licensed at the Stockholm Games.

1921

By 1921, the IOC's archives and museum had outgrown the Casino de Montenon.

1921: The IOC relocates to the Villa Mon-Repos.

1924

In 1924, the IOC helped support the Week of Winter Sports in Chamonix, France, before voting the next year at the Prague Congress to create the Winter Games proper.

1936

Brundage went on to run a successful construction business in Chicago (Edström had married to a schoolteacher from the Windy City); after becoming a champion handball player, Brundage became an advocate for the United State's participation in the 1936 Games in Berlin.

1942

Baillet-Latour died in January 1942, shortly after learning his son had died during military exercises in the United States.

1968

In Mexico 1968, students protested the country's disparity of wealth and the amount of money spent on the Olympics there; 267 were killed in an ensuing battle with police.

1969

The IOC's secretariat would expand greatly under Monique Berlioux, appointed director of press and public relations in 1969.

1969: Monique Berlioux, later secretary-general, begins expansion of IOC secretariat.

1970

After years of debate, the IOC voted to exclude South Africa from the Olympics in 1970.

1980

Juan Antonio Samaranch was named president, a full-time position, in 1980.

A champion sailor and orthopedic surgeon, Rogge had lobbied to send a Belgian team to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which was boycotted by the United States and the rest of its NATO allies over the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

1984

Though boycotted by the Soviet bloc, the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 were financially successful; they earned a tidy $225 million profit, observed Time magazine.

1992

Until 1992, both Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year.

1998

Salt Lake City, Utah, narrowly lost its bid to host the 1998 Winter Olympics, which instead went to Nagano, Japan.

1999

The IOC essentially transferred its anti-doping enforcement wing to the newly created World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999.

2000

Fast food colossus McDonald's was estimated to have spent $100 million at the 2000 Sydney Games.

2001

By early 2001, ticket sales, at $160 million, were double those of the previous Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.

2019

The IOC announced on 11 February 2019 that "Olympic House" would be inaugurated on 23 June 2019 to coincide with its 125th anniversary.

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International Olympic Committee competitors

Company nameFounded dateRevenueEmployee sizeJob openings
InsideOut Literary Arts1995$999,99928-
National Scholastic Press Association1959$1.7M7-
Freedom Writers Foundation1997$3.1M46-
Indiana Historical Society1830$6.4M118-
One Economy2000$50.0M50-
Schuylkill River Heritage Area1974$5.0M5-
Center for Media Justice2009$5.0M16-
Peta1980$66.3M38910
Colonial Athletic Association1985$10.0M10-
American Humanist Association1941$2.4M49-

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