The IOC stands for the International Olympic Committee and was founded in France in 1894. Its headquarters

was moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, a city of international culture on 10 April,1915. It is an international non-

government and non- profit organization and the highest authority of the Olympic Movement, serving as an

umbrella organization of the Olympic Moment. The IOC, with a corporate capacity, is responsible to supervise the

Olympic Movement and has a final say to many decisions made according to the Olympic Charter. The IOC

organization is made up of all the IOC committees, an executive board, a secretary department, and a special

committee. The IOC has a president, deputy presidents, the executive board and committee members. According

to the statistics in February 2000, there are 113 committee members from 78 countries and districts around the

world and 11 of them formed the executive board. They are J.A. Samaranch (Spain), R.W.Pound(Canada),

A.L.DeFrantz(theUS), S.E.Mbaye(Senegal), R.K.Gosper(Australia), T.Bach(Germany), Chiharu Igaya (Japan),

S.E.UnYongKim(Korean), MeMarc Holder(Switzerland), C.J.Rogge(Belgium), He Zhengliang (China). The current

President of the IOC is J.A.Samaranch and the deputy presidents are R.W .Pound, A.L.DeFrantz, S.E.Mbaye,

R.K.Gosper.