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The Olympic Federation of Ireland is the new name for the Olympic Council of Ireland, since 15 September 2018. The Irish Olympic Council was founded in 1920, while the Irish War of Independence was pitting the Irish Republic proclaimed by Sinn Féin against the Dublin Castle administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
[1] [5] He was elected to the executive committee of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1981 and was in successive Irish Olympic delegations from Los Angeles 1984. [1] He became president of the OCI in 1989 on the recommendation of Lord Killanin, former president of the OCI and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). [3]
Officials, including the President and the International Olympic Committee Delegate, of the National Olympic Committee for the island of Ireland, which has been known over time as the Irish Olympic Council (IOC), Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), and Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI).
The new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is a list of members of the International Olympic Committee.According to the Olympic Charter, the members of the IOC "represent and promote the interests of the IOC and of the Olympic Movement in their countries and in the organisations of the Olympic Movement in which they serve".
Ireland is unusual, in Olympic terms. The council is not the Olympic committee of the Republic of Ireland – it is the Olympic Council of Ireland. We have responsibility for the North of Ireland. We can thank my predecessor, Lord Killanin, for that. In 2012, Stephen Martin, who has been an executive at both the OCI and the BOA, said "Team GB ...
Ireland would go on to field at least one crew at every Olympic regatta except 1984. [19] Four years later, Drea came fourth in the same event. [20] At the 1996 Summer Olympics, the crew in the men's lightweight coxless four consisting of Derek Holland, Sam Lynch, Neville Maxwell and Tony O'Connor also came fourth. [21]
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Sarah Keane is the first female President of the Olympic Federation of Ireland, having been elected to that role in February 2017. [1] [2] She is a former member of the Irish water polo team, [3] and is CEO of Swim Ireland, [4] a position she has held since 2004.