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Honorary IOC member Troger passes away Adjust font size: GENEVA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) Walther Troger, an Honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, has passed away at the age of 91. Troger, who became an IOC member in 1989 and an Honorary member in 2010, is also a former IOC sports director and member of the Olympic Order. Walther Troger made a great contribution to the IOC, first as its sports director, then as a member and lately as an Honorary member, said IOC President Thomas Bach. I got to know him as a person with a great passion for sport and an immense knowledge about the Olympic Movement already when we met for the first time in the 1970s, when he was secretary general of the NOC and I was an athlete.

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