IOC President Jacques Rogge Re-Elected

COPENHAGEN: Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has been re-elected for a second term.

Rogge has said his second-term agenda will include measures to strengthen and improve the Olympic movement as well as the implementation of the recommendations from the recently completed XIII Congress. He also emphasized the importance of the new Youth Olympic Games, which will debut in Singapore in August, followed by the Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012.

“We have much more to do,” said Rogge. “We will take this initiative from infancy to maturity and leave a lasting legacy for the world’s youth. We will safeguard and strengthen our assets, and improve our framework for sharing revenues. We will continue to support National Olympic Committees and the International Federations, and we will defend the autonomy of sport wherever it is threatened. We will be staunch allies for athletes. We will continue to lead the fight against doping, and we will establish a new independent monitoring body to combat irregular betting and match fixing. We will narrow the gap in sport between the developed and the developing worlds; and between men and women. We will redouble our efforts to place sport at the service of mankind—to inspire young and old alike; to give athletes the opportunity to lead by example; and promote the Olympic values of fair play, respect, solidarity and the pursuit of excellence.”