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Rogge re-elected as IOC President
By Duncan Mackay in Copenhagen
October 9 - Jacques Rogge (pictured) was today officially re-elected as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the next four years, a period which will include the 2010 Vancouver and the 2010 London Games, at the 121st Session here today.
Rogge was the only candidate standing.
Rogge said after the vote that ''you have given me a great honor.
"We have accomplished a lot together.''
Brazilian IOC member Joao Havelange had asked that the vote be done simply by acclamation, but Rogge insisted on a secret ballot.
Rogge was elected the IOC's eighth president in July 2001, defeating three other candidates and taking over from Juan Antonio Samaranch after 21 years in charge.
Rogge has overseen successful Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 and Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Turin in 2006.
The former orthopedic surgeon has made the fight against doping his top priority in his first eight-year term, and pledged to continue the efforts to stop cheaters over the next four years.
He has also championed the creation of the Youth Olympic Games, which will debut in Singapore next year featuring athletes aged 14-18.
Rogge said: "We will be staunch allies of the athletes.
"We will narrow the gap in sports between the developed and developing worlds, and between men and women.''
Under the constitution of the IOC, Rogge has to step down at the end of this term.
Italy's former Sports Minister Mario Pescante and Singapore's Ng Ser Miang were elected as vice-presidents, beating Wu and Samih Moudallal of Syria.
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They replaced Japan's Chiharu Igaya and Lambis Nikolaou of Greece - step down following the end of the 121st Session.
Ng joined the IOC in 1998 and became an Executive Board member in 2005.
He was the international face of Singapore's bid to host the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) and helped sell the Republic in the race to host the inaugural Games.
Singapore ultimately beat Moscow for that right.
As the YOG organising committee chairman since the Republic won the bid, he has been leading preparations to welcome more than 3,500 of the world's best athletes aged 14 to 18 to Singapore's shores next August.
Danish Crown Prince Frederik headed the list of new IOC members, which also included Richard Peterkin of St. Lucia, Habu Ahmed Gumel of Nigeria, Habib Abdul Nabi Macki of Oman, Lydia Nsekera of Burundi and Goran Petersson of Sweden.
They were the only six candidates for membership.
That brings the total number of IOC members to 112.
Three of those, Walther Troeger of Germany, Tamas Ajan of Hungary and Zhenliang He of China, are leaving at the end of the year.
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