{"id":38318,"date":"2018-10-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwemalika-elected-to-international-olympic\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T08:41:08","slug":"rwemalika-elected-to-international-olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwemalika-elected-to-international-olympic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwemalika elected to International Olympic Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the International Olympic Committee Tuesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nine New International Olympic Committee (IOC) members were re-elected , three re-elected after eight years of membership and four completing their mandate will become INC honorary members. <\/p>\n

Five new individual Members (three women and two men) and four representatives of the constituents of the Olympic Movement were elected, following a proposal by the IOC Executive Board in July 2018.<\/p>\n

Others elected are; Daina Gudzineviciute (Lithuania), President of the Lithuanian Olympic Committee and five-time Olympian.<\/p>\n

Felicite Rwemarika (Rwanda), First Vice-President of the Rwandan Olympic Committee.
\nCamilo P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez Moreira (Paraguay), President of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
\nGiovanni Malag\u00f2 (Italy) , President of the Italian Olympic Committee effective from 1 January 2019.<\/p>\n

Samira Asghari (Afghanistan) , member of the Athletes\u2019 Entourage Commission since 2014.<\/p>\n

{{Representatives of the Olympic Movement
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Two Members linked to a function within a National Olympic Committee (NOC) or world or continental association of NOCs:<\/p>\n

William Frederick Blick (Uganda), President of the Ugandan Olympic Committee.
\nHRH Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck (Bhutan), President of the Bhutanese Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n

Two Members linked to a function within an International Sports Federation (IF) or association of IFs, or an organisation recognised by the IOC:<\/p>\n

Morinari Watanabe (Japan), President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
\nAndrew Parsons (Brazil), President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).<\/p>\n

F\u00e9licite Rwemalika is the first Rwandan to be elected to the IOC. She and her committee members will be in charge of organising the 2020 Olympics games that will be held in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

{{F\u00e9licite, 60, has a a strong background in Rwanda’s sports.
\n}}<\/p>\n

FERWAFA Executive Board member since 2007
\n1st vice president of Rwanda Olympic and Sports Committee
\nHolds Diploma in FIFA leadership development program
\nHead of Women\u2019s football in FERWAFA since 2007 to date
\nMember of executive committee of U17 CAF Championship and U23 World Championships 2012
\nMember of CECAFA women commission since 2011
\nMember of international Olympic Committee commission
\nPresident and founder of Association of Women in Sports AKWOS since 2004
\nContinental IOC award for Women in Sport 2016
\nASHOKA fellowship award international organization for change makers from 2012 up to date<\/p>\n

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The first vice president of Rwanda National Olympic and Sport Committee (CNOSR), Felicite Rwemalika has been elected to the International Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[198],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elie-imanishimwe"],"bylines":[{"id":198,"name":"Elie Imanishimwe","slug":"elie-imanishimwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":22}],"contributors":[{"id":198,"name":"Elie Imanishimwe","slug":"elie-imanishimwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":22}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38318"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38318"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}