President of the International Olympic Committee congress. Athens was approved to host the 1896 Olympic Games, being the original home of the Olympics, and Vikelas was duly chosen as the first President of the IOC. Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, took over the IOC presidency when Demetrius Vikelas stepped down after the Olympics in his own country. Despite its initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 Games (in de Coubertin's own Paris) and 1904 Games were both upstaged by World's Fairs—Exposition Universelle in 1900 and Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904—and received little attention. The 1906 Intercalated Games revived the momentum, and the Olympic
Egyptian Olympic Committee Egyptian Olympic Committee The Egyptian Olympic Committee (, abbreviated as EOC) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Egypt and a part of the International Olympic Committee. Egyptian Olympic Committee was founded during the Khedivate of Egypt on 13 June 1910 in Alexandria by the Angelo Bolanaki, first egyptian athlete who participated in international sport competitions outside country. Egypt first appeared in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games with one athlete in fencing. It was the 14th country to join the IOC. The following is a list of presidents of the Egyptian Olympic Committee since its creation