IOC: death of Jacques Rogge (BEL), president from 2001 to 2013 and honorary president since 2013
Belgian Count Jacques Rogge, the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee, which he led from 2001 to 2013 (after Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch and before Germany's Thomas Bach), has died at the age of 79 after a long illness, according to the IOC on 29/08/2021.
"Rogge was an orthopaedic surgeon with a degree in sports medicine...