The President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic Games. During the opening and closing ceremonies, the president does a speech before the IOC president.

Lists of presidents

Summer Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost cityHost countryYear
Prince Constantine of GreeceGames of the I OlympiadAthens Kingdom of Greece1896
Pierre de CoubertinGames of the II OlympiadParis France1900
David R. FrancisGames of the III OlympiadSt. Louis United States1904
William Grenfell, 1st Baron DesboroughGames of the IV OlympiadLondon United Kingdom1908
Sigfrid EdströmGames of the V OlympiadStockholm Sweden1912
Henri de Baillet-LatourGames of the VII OlympiadAntwerp Belgium1920
Pierre de CoubertinGames of the VIII OlympiadParis France1924
Solko van den BerghGames of the IX OlympiadAmsterdam Netherlands1928
George BryantGames of the X OlympiadLos Angeles United States1932
Joseph Goebbels
Karl Ritter von Halt
Games of the XI OlympiadBerlin Nazi Germany1936
Lord BurghleyGames of the XIV OlympiadLondon United Kingdom1948
Erik von FrenckellGames of the XV OlympiadHelsinki Finland1952
Wilfrid Kent HughesGames of the XVI OlympiadMelbourne Australia1956
Giulio AndreottiGames of the XVII OlympiadRome Italy1960
Juichi Tsushima
Daigoro Yasukawa
Games of the XVIII OlympiadTokyo Japan1964
Pedro Ramírez VázquezGames of the XIX OlympiadMexico City Mexico1968
Willi DaumeGames of the XX OlympiadMunich West Germany1972
Roger RousseauGames of the XXI OlympiadMontreal Canada1976
Ignati NovikovGames of the XXII OlympiadMoscow Soviet Union1980
Peter UeberrothGames of the XXIII OlympiadLos Angeles United States1984
Kim Yong-shik
Roh Tae-woo
Park Seh-jik
Games of the XXIV OlympiadSeoul South Korea1988
Pasqual MaragallGames of the XXV OlympiadBarcelona Spain1992
Billy PayneGames of the XXVI OlympiadAtlanta United States1996
Gary Pemberton
John Iliffe
Michael Knight
Games of the XXVII OlympiadSydney Australia2000
Efstratios Stratigis
Panayiotis Thomopoulos
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Games of the XXVIII OlympiadAthens Greece2004
Liu QiGames of the XXIX OlympiadBeijing China2008
Lord Sebastian CoeGames of the XXX OlympiadLondon United Kingdom2012
Carlos Arthur NuzmanGames of the XXXI OlympiadRio de Janeiro Brazil2016
Yoshirō Mori
Seiko Hashimoto
Games of the XXXII OlympiadTokyo Japan2021
Tony EstanguetGames of the XXXIII OlympiadParis France2024
Casey WassermanGames of the XXXIV OlympiadLos Angeles United States2028
Andrew LiverisGames of the XXXV OlympiadBrisbane Australia2032

Winter Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost cityHost countryYear
Pierre de CoubertinI Olympic Winter GamesChamonix France1924
Edmund SchulthessII Olympic Winter GamesSt Moritz  Switzerland1928
Godfrey DeweyIII Olympic Winter GamesLake Placid United States1932
Joseph Goebbels
Karl Ritter von Halt
IV Olympic Winter GamesGarmisch-Partenkirchen Nazi Germany1936
Alfred Schläppi
Heinrich Schläppi
V Olympic Winter GamesSt. Moritz  Switzerland1948
Haakon VII of Norway
Princess Astrid of Norway
Olaf Helset
VI Olympic Winter GamesOslo Norway1952
Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di RevelVII Olympic Winter GamesCortina d'Ampezzo Italy1956
Prentis Cobb HaleVIII Olympic Winter GamesSquaw Valley United States1960
Bruno KreiskyIX Olympic Winter GamesInnsbruck Austria1964
Albert MichallonX Olympic Winter GamesGrenoble France1968
Kōgorō UemuraXI Olympic Winter GamesSapporo Japan1972
Bruno KreiskyXII Olympic Winter GamesInnsbruck Austria1976
Ron MacKenzie
Rev. J. Bernard Fell
XIII Olympic Winter GamesLake Placid United States1980
Branko MikulićXIV Olympic Winter GamesSarajevo Yugoslavia1984
Frank King[1]XV Olympic Winter GamesCalgary Canada1988
Jean-Claude Killy
Michel Barnier
XVI Olympic Winter GamesAlbertville France1992
Gerhard HeibergXVII Olympic Winter GamesLillehammer Norway1994
Eishiro SaitoXVIII Olympic Winter GamesNagano Japan1998
Robert H. Garff
Frank Joklik
Mitt Romney
XIX Olympic Winter GamesSalt Lake City United States2002
Valentino CastellaniXX Olympic Winter GamesTurin Italy2006
John FurlongXXI Olympic Winter GamesVancouver Canada2010
Dmitry ChernyshenkoXXII Olympic Winter GamesSochi Russia2014
Kim Jin-sun
Cho Yang-ho
Lee Hee-beom
XXIII Olympic Winter GamesPyeongchang South Korea2018
Guo Jinlong
Cai Qi
XXIV Olympic Winter GamesBeijing China2022
Giovanni MalagòXXV Olympic Winter GamesMilan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy2026

Summer Youth Olympic Games


PresidentGame Host cityHost countryYear
Ng Ser MiangI Summer Youth Olympic Games SingaporeSingapore Singapore2010
Li XueyongII Summer Youth Olympic GamesNanjing China 2014
Gerardo WertheinIII Summer Youth Olympic GamesBuenos Aires Argentina2018
Mamadou NdiayeIV Summer Youth Olympic GamesDakar Senegal 2026

Winter Youth Olympic Games

PresidentGame Host cityHost countryYear
Richard RubatscherI Winter Youth Olympic GamesInnsbruck Austria2012
Siri HatlenII Winter Youth Olympic GamesLillehammer Norway2016
Patrick Baumann
Ira Logan
Virginie Faivre
III Winter Youth Olympic GamesLausanne  Switzerland2020
Choi Moon-soonIV Winter Youth Olympic GamesGangwon South Korea2024

Other offices held

Presidents of the Olympic Organizing Committee have gone on to or have served in other high offices.

Joseph Goebbels who headed the organizing committees for the 1936 Winter Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics served as Chancellor of Germany for one day in 1945 before committing suicide.

Konstantin Chernenko was the leader of the Soviet Union while also being the President of the OCOG.

Elected office

David R. Francis who headed the organizing committee for the 1904 Summer Olympics served as Governor of Missouri prior to heading the organizing committee. He later briefly served as the United States Ambassador to Russia.

Following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts and was elected Governor with nearly 50% of the vote in the election. He served one term as governor. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 Presidential Election but lost to then-incumbent President Barack Obama. Sixteen years after the Winter Olympics, Romney would go on be to elected Senator for the state of Utah following the midterm election.

Yoshirō Mori who headed of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo until 2021, he served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001.

Other sporting positions

Pierre de Coubertin who headed the organizing committees for the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics as well as the 1924 Winter Olympics was the founder of the modern Olympic movement and International Olympic Committee. He served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1925.

Peter Ueberroth who headed the organizing committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went on to serve as the Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989.

Sebastian Coe who headed the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is now serving as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He had also served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2012 to 2016.

Notes

      References

      1. Canadian Press (May 10, 2018). "Frank King, who brought Olympics to Calgary, dies at 81". CBC.
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