Jacques Rogge was born in Ghent, Belgium on May 2, 1942. He is a Belgian and lives in Deinze, northern Belgium. Doctor of Sports Medicine. Director of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Ghent Hospital. He was a lecturer in sports medicine at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. As a sailing athlete, he participated in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the 1972 Munich Olympics and the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He has won 1 sailing world championship, 2 world runner-ups and 16 Belgian champions. As a rugby player, he won the Belgian league championship and was selected for the Belgian national rugby team 10 times. After retiring, Rogge studied medicine at the University of Ghent in Belgium, received a doctorate, and was an orthopedic surgeon.
A core point of Rogge’s IOC policy is to limit the number of participants in the Summer Olympics to less than 10,000. He said he would strictly ban corruption and doping. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Rogge became the first Olympic Committee president to live in the Olympic Village and personally devoted himself to the supervision of the games.
During his tenure, baseball and softball were voted to be removed from the Olympic program at the Singapore meeting in July 2005, effective at the 2012 London Olympics. Roque was also made a count by King Albert II of Belgium.
Rogge was once a water athlete. He showed extremely high sports talent when he was young. He was a member of the Belgian rugby team and won one and two world championships in sailing. World runner-up, participated in three Olympic Games in 1968, 1972 and 1976. At the same time, he is also an excellent plastic surgeon, has a doctorate in medicine, is proficient in Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish and other languages, and has a special liking for modern art.
After Rogge was elected President of the European Olympic Committee in 1989, his influence in the international sports community increased rapidly. He was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1991 and as an executive member of the International Olympic Committee in 1998. He served for three years. Later in Moscow in July 2001, he became the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee. In 2000 and 2004, he served as the general coordinator of the Olympic Games.
As the first president of the International Olympic Committee in the 21st century, Rogge stated when he took office that he would continue to lead the Olympic movement in the right direction. He believed that the scale of the Olympic Games should be reasonably controlled to allow It is the future trend of the Olympic movement that more cities have the opportunity to host the Olympic Games.
In 1980, instead of following the United States in boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he led the Belgian sports delegation to participate in the competition.
In 1990, he served as Chairman of the European Association of National Olympic Committees.
He served as Chairman of the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee from 1989 to 1992. He served as the head of the organizing committees of the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics, the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
In 1990, he served as a member of the Olympic Movement Committee of the International Olympic Committee.
Served as a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1991.
Served as a member of the Summer Olympics Planning Committee from 1992 to 1994.
From 1992 to 1993, he served as a member of the Drug Committee of the 27th Olympic Games held in Sydney in 2000.
Served as Vice Chairman of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Coordination Committee from 1994 to 2000.
Served as Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the International Olympic Committee from 1995 to 2001.
In July 2001, he was elected as the President of the International Olympic Committee and resigned from the position of Chairman of the Olympic Committee Coordination Committee.