Mario Vazquez Raña

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Mario Vázquez Raña (born 7 June 1932, in Mexico City) is a Mexican businessman and sports administrator, who has served on both national and Olympic committees. On 5 April 2008, Vázquez Raña received international press attention for his statement that the situation in Tibet "is a Chinese problem" that is "not an issue for the Olympic Games."[1]

1 Career
2 Sports
3 Sports Administration
4 Positions with the IOC
5 See also
- 5.1 References
  - 5.1.1 Additional references

[edit] Career

President of the Board of Directors of the Hermanos Vázquez Company (1960-1980);
President and Director General of the Organización Editorial Mexicana (1975-) the largest newspaper company in Latin America, "Cartones Ponderosa" (2001-) and
owned United Press International (1985-1988) ^[1]^[2]

[edit] Sports

Participation in shooting competitions at national and international level in 1960.

[edit] Sports Administration

President of the Mexican Shooting Federation (1969-1974);
President of the American Shooting Confederation (1973-1979);
Vice-President of the Mexican Sports Confederation (1973-1976);
member of the NOC (1972-) then
- President (1974-2001);
President of the PanAmerican Games Organization Committee (1975);
President, Panamerican Sports Organization (PASO) (1975-);
Chairman of the International Olympic Solidarity Commission for the American Continent (1975-);
President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (1979-)

[edit] Positions with the IOC

Member of the Executive Board as representative of NOCs (2000-);
Vice-Chairman of the Olympic Solidarity Commission (1979-1996),
Deputy Chairman (1997-2001) then
- Chairman (2002-);
member of the following Commissions:
- Olympic Movement (1990-1999),
- Preparation of the XII Olympic Congress (1990-1994),
- Apartheid and Olympism (1990-1992),
- "IOC 2000" (Executive Committee, 1999),
- Marketing (2000),
- IOC 2000 Reform Follow-up (2002).