International Olympic Committee in Sochi 2014 were reinstated. The IOC was harshly criticized for their handling of the Russian doping scandal. After reinstating the Russian Olympic committee following the 2018 Winter Olympics, Jim Walden, attorney for Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, who masterminded Russia's programme, called the move "weakness in the face of evil." International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: "Comité International Olympique", CIO) is a private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Olympic Games. The IOC is the controlling body for the
Secretary-General to the President a claim Moynihan ridiculed in papers now available in the National Archives of Ireland. In the 1990s, the title of chief civil servant in the Irish government was changed from "Secretary to the Department" to "Secretary-General to the Department". The post of "Secretary to the President" however was left unchanged because the Office of the President was not technically a department. In 2004 a Bill was introduced into the Oireachtas to change the title from "Secretary to the President" to "Secretary-General to the President". The name change came into force in 2005. Secretary-General to the President The Secretary-General to the