Sydney, Australia, April 11 (Tanjug) - The Executive Office of the
International Olympics Committee (IOC) decided at a meeting in
Sydney to decorate Yugoslav Olympics Committee Secretary-General
Djordje Perisic with the Olympics award.
The award was presented at the proposal of IOC member and World
Basketball Federation FIBA Secretary-General Borislav Stankovic.
Perisic took part as a swimmer in the 1960 Rome Olympics, and as
a member of the water polo team at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and
the 1972 Munich Olympics.
After ending his athletic career, Perisic was an active social
and sports official and contributed greatly to the development of
sports, the Olympic spirit, and the unity of the Olympic movement in
general, the statement said.
Under the IOC Charter, the Olympics award is presented only in
special cases when persons emphasized Olympic values with their
activities, achieves significant merits in the world of sports,
or provide exceptional services to the Olympics movement either
through personal achievements or by contributing to the development of
sports in general.
Perisic is the third Serb to receive this award, after Mihajlo
Andrejevic, a former member of the World Football Federation FIFA, and
Milan Bata Ercegan, the president of the International Wrestling
Federation FILA.
