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
Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau, China of the 2006 Lusofonia Games. Macau was also chosen as the first vice-president (2005-2009) and President of the Executive Committee (2009-2013) of ACOLOP. Manuel Silvério (), the first vice-president of the Macau Olympic Committee, was elected as the vice president of the Olympic Council of Asia in 2005. As several athletes in the region had expressed interest in forming an organization to administer non-international sporting events in the regions, the Macau Olympic Committee revised its constitution and renamed itself to "Sports and Olympic Committee of Macau, China" on September 10, 2008. After the change, CODM remains the only internal and