International Olympic Committee
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- noun
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Comité Olímpico Internacional
- It is not the purpose of the Amateur Athletics Union or the American Olympic Committee or the International Olympic Committee to tell Germans how to govern their affairs.
- International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- International Olympic Committee
- International Olympic Committee's decision
You, you have advised the IOC, the International Olympic Committee on guidelines regarding sex reassignment and hyper androgynism.
- You, you have advised the IOC, the International Olympic Committee on guidelines regarding sex reassignment and hyper androgynism.
- We had to make our case to the International Olympic Committee why we were qualified to have the Games.
- More recently, there was a call set up between her and the head of the International Olympic Committee which didn't really, really resolve anything.
Examples
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The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision was a serious blow to Chinese pride and ambition.
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America has no right to interfere in the International Olympic Committee's decision.
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We had to make our case to the International Olympic Committee why we were qualified to have the Games.
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Because of this negative press coverage, the International Olympic Committee banned any further track-and-field events in future Olympics.
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During the 1960s and 1970s, sport governing bodies such as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and the International Olympic Committee banned specific drugs.
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The monument celebrates the ideals of the international games and Mali's membership on the International Olympic Committee since the early years of independence.
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In accepting the Soviets, the International Olympic Committee opted for its universalist aspirations over a fundamental principle.
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The most fascinating figure in the Soviet-Olympic alliance was Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.
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The ISMGF established ties to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), thus expanding the scope of wheelchair sports.
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The International Olympic Committee oversees the organization of the Olympic Games held every four years.
Synonyms
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An organization that runs the modern Olympic Games and chooses hosts
Surface Forms
Morphology
international + Olympic + committee
The meaning is directly derivable from 'international' (involving multiple countries) + 'Olympic' (connected to the Olympic Games) + 'committee' (a group formed to address specific matters). This compositional institutional name follows common cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
International Olympic Committee was created in 1894 by people who wanted to bring back the ancient Olympic Games. Its name tells its job: International means many countries, Olympic is the Games, and Committee is a group that makes decisions, so it is the group that 'organizes' the Olympic Games around the world.