国际奥委会首任主席：维凯拉斯 Demetrius Vikelas
国际奥委会首任主席德米特留斯·维凯拉斯（Demetrius Vikelas 、希腊、1835—1908)是希腊诗人和教育家，维凯拉斯1835年生于希腊锡拉，作为泛希腊俱乐部会员，代表希腊参加了1894年顾拜旦主持召开的国际奥委会巴黎大会。会上，他积极支持希腊主办首届现代奥林匹克运动会。因此，根据当时的规定，国际奥委会主席应该是奥运会举办国家的人，会后被选为第一任国际奥委会主席，从1894年任职到1896年。
他于1908年去世，终生为奥林匹克运动的发展做出积极的努力。
President of the IOC from 1894 to 1896: Demetrius Vikelas
The first President was a Greek. He was born in Ermoupolis, on the island of Syros, on 15 February 1835. The Regulations drawn up by Pierre de Coubertin stipulated that the President of the International Olympic Committee should be chosen from the country where the next Games were to be held.
Mr Vikelas was thus President from 1894 to 1896. He had no particular connection with sport when he came from Greece to represent the Pan-Hellenic Gymnastic Club at the Congress in Paris in 1894. The original idea was to stage the first Games in Paris in 1900, but Mr Vikelas was able to convince the Committee that they should be held in Athens in May 1896.
After the conclusion of the first Games, he devoted himself to the promotion and popularisation of general education, which he claimed was urgently needed in Greece.
With his erudition to which we owe a scholarly work on "Byzantine and Modern Greece", he combined a fertile and whimsical imagination which gave us "Louki Laras" and "Tales from the Aegean". He died in Athens on 20 July 1908.
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