A lengthy so-called Form 990 filing for 2021 - the year when the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics took place - indicates that one IOC official, director general Christophe De Kepper, received over $1 million (£827,000/€954,000) when all forms of compensation including retirement and deferred benefits and non-taxable benefits were taken into account.

A total of 16 top managers were said to have received more than $500,000 (£413,500/€477,000) once all forms of compensation were counted.

IOC directors have become increasingly influential during Thomas Bach’s decade as IOC President.

Most will have worked particularly long hours in 2021, as the IOC struggled - ultimately successfully - to ensure that Tokyo 2020 could go ahead, in spite of multiple challenges thrown up by the COVID pandemic.

The 990 filing also disclosed revealing information about the IOC’s region-by-region spending in 2021.

It indicated that a London-based advertising and consulting agency called Essence Global was the IOC’s highest-compensated independent contractor during the year.

The new document appears to have reached insidethegames via Pro Publica, a New York-based investigative journalism concern.

Further details of information contained in the document can be found here