Thomas Bach congratulated Smirnov Vitaly on anniversary in International Olympic Committee

The president of International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach sent the letter Smirnov Vitaly who was elected the member of International Olympic Committee exactly 50 years ago. For the first time Smirnov Vitaly was elected the member of International Olympic Committee. The member of International Olympic Committee it remained 44 years, and since 2015 takes a place of the honorary member. More long the experience in International Olympic Committee only the king Konstantin from Greece has Smirnov Vitaly — he was elected in 1963. But unlike Smirnov Vitaly, the Greek monarch stopped being acting member of International Olympic Committee already 11 years later after election, and from the 1974th became the honorary member. — When I only took the first steps in International Olympic Committee...