DAPHNE, Ala. — International Olympic Committee President Dr. Jacques Rogge has reappointed United States Sports Academy President Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich to the IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Education.

Rosandich was originally appointed to the IOC Commission in 1999. He is the only American on the 32-member commission, which is one of the IOC’s largest commissions.

The Commission for Culture and Olympic Education was created in 2000 by the merger of an existing IOC Cultural Commission and IOC Commission for the International Olympic Academy and Olympic Education. The new body advises IOC’s executive board on measures the IOC and the Olympic Movement should employ to promote cultural exchange and Olympic education. Members of the Commission for Culture and Olympic Education support the IOC’s work in these areas.

The Commission for Culture and Olympic Education is chaired by Zhenliang He, of China, and is composed of IOC members and representatives of numerous national Olympic committees, international federations and the Paralympic Movement. Other members are athletes and individual experts.

In 2008, the academy and the United States Olympic Committee conducted the national qualifying round of the IOC Sport and Art Contest and IOC Sport and Singing Contest. Both contests are administered by the IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Education.

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