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
National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic 3.Vice-President – Azad Rahimov 4.Vice-President – Khazar Isayev 5.Secretary General – Aghajan Abiyev 6.Deputy Secretary General – Azer Aliyev The AZMOC is present on social media, with the Press Office of the Committee running an official Facebook page, as well as Twitter and Instagram accounts. The AZMOC is also present on YouTube with its own channel. National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli Olimpiya Komitəsi) (AZMOC) - is an independent public organization, with a status of a legal entity, which passed registration in the Ministry of Justice of