Spanish Marisol Casado received the Olympic Order on Friday, the highest difference of the International Olympic Committee, during the 144th session celebrated by the agency in Costa Navarino (Greece).
Casado was appointed Honorary Eve of the IOC, because at the end of this session he left the status of ordinary members by abandoning the presidency of the International Triathlon Federation.
The president of the IOC, German Thomas Bach, imposed an Olympic order “for exceptional merits” and for its “loyalty” in the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin, according to the formula of the protocol of this difference.
Bach relates to the majority of responsibility for the same between men and women in Olympic games.
In the last Bach session as president, after the Thursday election of Zimbabuense Kirsty Coventry as his successor, the agency delivered a lot of differences to IOC members and his staff’s workers.
The Canadian Richard Pound, Turk Ugur Erdener, the Chinese Zaiqing Yu, remaining members or former members, Brazilian Ary Graça, former president of the International Volleyball Federation, and French Valérie Fourneyron, president of the International Anti -Doping Control Agency.
The tribes and thanks ended the 144th session, which on Thursday made a historic decision to choose a woman’s first time as president.
Source: La Verdad
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