Jacques Rogge

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Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge (born 2 May 1942) is a Belgian sports administrator and physician who served as the eighth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013.

In 2013, the IOC announced that Rogge would become their Honorary President.

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Life and career

During the Nazi Germany occupation, Rogge was born in Ghent, Belgium. He was the son of Suzanne and Charles Rogge, an engineer. Rogge, a qualified orthopedic surgeon, received his education at the University of Ghent and Sint-Barbaracollege.

Rogge was a well-known celebrity in his home country. He was a 16-time Belgian national champion in rugby and a one-time world champion in yachting. He competed in the Finn class of sailing on three Summer Olympic Games, in 1968, 1972, and 1976. In October 2016, The British School of Brussels named a new Sports Centre in their honor.

Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001. He became a member of the IOC in 1991 and 1998 joined its executive board. He was knighted in 1992 and then, in 2002, he took part in King Albert II's Belgian nobility. When Rogge resigned as President of the IOC, he was given a gold Olympic Order by his replacement. The Princess Royal appointed him on February 25, 2014, as an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) at Buckingham Palace for his years of service to the Olympics, particularly for his contributions to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Rogge was appointed Special Envoy for Youth Refugees and Sport by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 28 April 2014 to help youth from displaced and refugee groups return to peace, stability, health, education, gender parity, and a more inclusive society.

Rogge, a prolific reader of historical and scientific literature, was known to love modern art in his spare time.

The British School of Brussels opened its new sports center in Tervuren, Belgium, on October 14th. "The Jacques Rogge Sports Centre" was opened and named after Rogge's arrival.

The Paralympic Committee of the International Paralympic Committee awarded Rogge the highest accolade in 2017 for rescuing them from financial hardship. The Jean Borotra World Fair Play Trophy was given to Rogge by the International Fair Play Committee for his lifetime achievement. The committee decided to name their youth award in honor of Rogge, naming it the Jacques Rogge Fair Play Trophy for Young People.

Rogge died on August 29, 2021, at the age of 79. The IOC did not specify what the cause of death was, but Rogge had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for the past four years.

Rogge was elected President of the IOC at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow on July 16th as the successor to Juan Antonio Samaranch, who had previously led the IOC since 1980.

Rogge, the first ever IOC President to live in Salt Lake City, enjoying closer contact with the athletes as a result.

In October 2009, he was re-elected for a new term as President of the IOC. German Thomas Bach (who had earned a gold medal in fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal) was elected as his successor in September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires.

A Forbes magazine list of the 68 most influential people in the country named Rogge at No. 1 in 2011. 67.

Rogge attended a ceremony in Trafalgar Square on July 27, 2011, one year before London 2012, where he welcomed athletes from around the world to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. The Princess Royal and Sebastian Coe, the former Olympians, have been awarded the medals after both Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson gave addresses.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy made Rogge an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in December 2011.

At the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Jacques Rogge's IOC Presidency came to an end. At the session on September 10, 2013, German Thomas Bach was elected as the new IOC President. Rogge was then made Lifetime President of the IOC, a post he held until his death in 2021.

In mid-July 2008, Rogge, People's Republic of China, said there will be no internet censorship by PRC government officials in Beijing: "For the first time, foreign media will be allowed to freely and freely publish their findings in China." However, IOC spokesman Kevan Gosper had to retract this optimistic claim on July 30th, announcing that journalists will actually be banned from the internet by July 30th. Gosper, who denied hearing about this, said that high IOC officials (probably including Hein Verbruggen and IOC Director of the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli, and most likely with Rogge's knowledge) had negotiated an obscure agreement with PRC officials to allow the censorship to be enforced, but not aware of either the press or most members of the IOC. Rogge denied that any such meeting had occurred, but later failed to insist that the PRC follow its prior promises that the Internet would not be blocked.

The play Dear Mr. Rogge, written by Dinah Lee Küng in 2012, depicts an imprisoned PRC dissident who wrote a letter requesting Rogge to walk from the Birds Nest stadium to Beijing Prison No. 1. Two in order to verify Rogge's assertion that hosting the Olympics would only benefit the country, but it will only help with good.

Usain Bolt's gestures of indignation and awe after winning the 100 meters in Beijing were "not the way we imagine being a champion," Rogge said, adding that "he should have more respect for his opponents."

In response to his comments, Yahoo!

Dan Wetzel, a sports columnist who covered the Games, characterized him as "a classic stiff-collared bureaucrat" and went further, claiming that "the IOC] has earned billions off athletes such as Bolt for years, but he has yet to decide who to choose from." In an interview with Irish Times reporter Ian O'Riordan, Rogge said, "Maybe there was a little bit of misunderstanding." "What he does before or after the race I have no problem with." I just felt that his gesticulation during the race was perhaps a little disrespectful."

During the 2012 Summer Olympics' opening ceremonies, Rogge declined calls for a minute of silence to honor the 11 Israeli Olympians killed 40 years earlier during the Munich massacre. Despite the persistent appeal of the 11 Israeli Olympic team members' families and political pressure from the United States, Britain, and Germany, who said, "We feel that the opening ceremony is not appropriate to commemorate such tragic events." Shaul Ladany, an Israeli Olympian who survived the Munich massacre, said: "I don't know." I don't know how to explain it properly and do not accept it." On the anniversary of the attack, Rogge and the IOC instead held a ceremony at Guildhall, London, and one at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base.

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