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			Olympics award to Perisic April 14, 2000 Djordje Perisic 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.
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