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Top Photo (from left to right): Nicole HOEVERTSZ, Nenad LALOVIC, John COATES, Emma TERHO, IOC President Thomas BACH, Kristin KLOSTER, Gerardo WERTHEIN, Ser MIANG NG, Kirsty COVERNTRY
PARIS (July 27) -- United World Wrestling and International Olympic Committee Executive Board member Nenad LALOVIC visited Sorbonne in Paris last week. IOC President Thomas BACH along with the IOC EB visited Sorbonne, the place where the IOC EB was first founded.
Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, and the EB met in Sorbonne 130 years ago to found the IOC in Paris.
Before the 2024 Paris Olympics which began July 26, the current IOC EB revisited the same room where it all began.
Back in the room where it all started 130 years ago.
— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) July 19, 2024
This is where Pierre de Coubertin and the first ever Executive Board (EB) founded the International Olympic Committee at the Sorbonne in Paris.
The IOC EB visited the Sorbonne today. pic.twitter.com/yNoiSY0pjk
Lalovic was first elected as an IOC member in 2015 for an eight-year term. He was re-elected unanimously at the 141st IOC session in Mumbai in 2023 for a new eight-year term.
As an IOC EB member, Lalovic was first elected in 2018 and then re-elected in 2022 in Beijing for a four-year term. He also serves on the WADA Executive Committee and the ASOIF Council.
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