Nicole Hoevertsz has been elected as the new Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Aruban takes over from the American Anita DeFrantz, who has reached her maximum number of terms of two times four years.
Hoevertsz was the only candidate for the position. She showed pride after her election: “If you had asked me earlier if this was possible, I would have thought it a dream. But you make a little girl’s dream of an island possible.”
The former synchronized swimmer took part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles on behalf of the Netherlands Antilles (which last competed as a country in 2008) and then started working as a sports director.
In 2006 she set foot in the Olympic Committee as a member and slowly worked her way up. Hoevertsz is currently chairman of the committee that monitors the progress of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
She is the daughter of an Aruban father and Dutch mother and studied law in Leiden.
President 2025
The new vice-president will serve on the IOC board until 2025, when her term also expires. In the same year, a new president of the IOC is also elected. Then the current chairman Thomas Bach has reached his maximum term of twelve years.
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