Baillet-Latour, Henri de

Belgian sports administrator

Also known as: Henri de Baillet-Latour

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Henri, comte de Baillet-Latour was a Belgian sports administrator who served as the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1925 to 1942. During his tenure, the IOC headquarters were moved to Lausanne, Switzerland. He was instrumental in maintaining the regular celebration of the Olympic Games and promoting sports worldwide. Baillet-Latour's presidency occurred during a period of significant growth for the Olympic movement, though it was also impacted by global events like World War I.12

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Henri de Baillet-Latour, and the organization’s future president Sigfrid Edström—look like lax liberals. So fiercely anticommunist was Brundage that, upon returning home from the Los Angeles Games in 1932 and discovering that a socialist workers’ counter-Olympics had been held on the campus of the University…
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Henri de Baillet-Latour, and the organization’s future president Sigfrid Edström—look like lax liberals. So fiercely anticommunist was Brundage that, upon returning home from the Los Angeles Games in 1932 and discovering that a socialist workers’ counter-Olympics had been held on the campus of the University…
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