sport aid - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1994 - 100 Pfennig
Theme: Post & Philately
Country | Germany / Federal Republic of Germany |
Issue Date | 1994 |
Face Value | 100.00 |
Color | multi-colored white |
Perforation | K 13 3/4 |
Printing Type | Multicolor offset printing |
Stamp Type | Postage stamp |
Item Type | Stamp |
Chronological Issue Number | 1592 |
Chronological Chapter | GER-BRD |
SID | 627503 |
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) celebrates its 100th anniversary on June 23, 1994. It was founded in 1894 at the International Sports Delegates Congress in Paris by the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, whose idea of the century found worldwide supporters. Coubertin developed the structures for hosting the modern-day Olympic Games and proclaimed the principles of the universality of his committee and festival, as they are still valid today. Since the IOC was founded, 390 personalities have been appointed to the IOC; 91 ladies and gentlemen are currently IOC members. Since 1896 there have been 23 Olympic Games and since 1924 also 16 Olympic Winter Games. The next games take place in 1994 in Lillehammer (winter) and 1996 in Atlanta (summer). Scattered across the globe, the IOC currently recognizes 185 National Olympic Committees that can send teams to the Olympics. 30 international professional associations find their sports in the Olympic program. Since 1894, 52 cities around the world have applied for Olympic Games 115 times. In the Winter Games, there were 39 cities with 81 candidacies. Since 1896, 73,000 athletes have participated in the games. The IOC is today considered the highest authority in world sports. An Olympic victory is rated by most athletes as the noblest success in the sport. The IOC, with its Spanish President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who has been in office since 1980, supports the Olympic Organizing Organizations, the International Federations and the National Olympic Committees with a variety of activities, both materially and materially, to fulfill their multifarious tasks in the service of the Olympic Games Idea.