Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee

History

The China National Amateur Athletic Federation (中華業餘運動聯合會) was established on April 3, 1922. Later on the same year, International Olympic Committee recolonize the Federation as the Chinese Olympic Committee (中國奧林匹克委員會) and Wang Jheng-ting (王正廷), the president of the Committee, was elected as the member of the International Olympic Committee during the 22nd IOC Sessions which were hosted in Paris, France.

China National Amateur Athletic Federation was reorganized on Aug 24, 1924 in Shanghai, the name of the Federation remained the same in English but in Chinese. The Federation attended the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics but did not attend the race and no athletes were sent to attend the Amsterdam Olympics. The Federation used the name of "China" and the only athlete Liu Changchun competed in the Olympic Games in 1932 which was hosted in Los Angeles, United States of America.

The Headquarter of the Federation was moved from Nanking to Taipei City and renamed as Chinese Olympic Committee, National Amateur Athletic Federation as approved by the International Olympic Committee due to the Federation lettered to IOC that there was 19 members out of 26 moved to Taiwan with the Government in 1951. The Olympic Committee won the first Olympic medalist in the country's history by the Taiwanese aborigines athlete Yang Chuan-kwang during the Rome Olympics.

The Helsinki Olympics Organization Committee invited China and Taiwan to attend the Games as IOC recolonized these two Olympic Committee but the Committee briefly withdrew from the Helsinki Olympics because its delegation was listed as China (Formosa). The Federation was informed by the International Committee that, as it did not control sport in Mainland China, it could not continue to be recognized as "Chinese National Olympic Committee" and thus, all applications under a different name would be considered. Moreover, The announcement stated that "IOC should not be involved in any political issue or views, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee should stated the National Olympic Committee should consider as its own local jurisdiction but jurisdiction of its governance. Therefore, the Federation reorganized as the Republic of China Olympic Committee (ROCOC, 中華民國奧林匹克委員會) on January 1, 1960, and it was approved in the 1960s.

ROCOC was agreed the delegation should be known as Taiwan but would be allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits by the IOC that during an Olympic Games in the 1960s. Mainland China used different ways to reject the memberships of Republic of China with the International Federations in different sports since the People's Republic of China became the member of United Nations in 1971 such as the Canadian Government announced to reject ROCOC to attend the Montreal Olympics as it recognized People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government and according to the One China Policy.

The Federation held annual Chinese Taipei Olympic Academy (CTOA, 中華奧林匹克學院) as the National Olympic Academy Session (NOA, 奧林匹克研討會) every year in different counties of Taiwan since 1978, and the Academy became the fourth National Olympic Committee and as the first NOC in Asia to hold Olympic Academy.

United States Olympic Committee tried to solve the problem of the membership between ROCOC and Chinese Olympic Committee during the 81th IOC Session in Montevideo, Uruguay as the relationship broke off between Republic of China and the United States of America in 1979. The ROCOC was forced to changed the name of the Committee and would no longer be allowed to use the national anthem and national flag of the Republic of China according to the postal ballot result as 62:17 by the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee in Nagoya, Japan. Later on, the Swiss Court agreed the judicial review by the ROCOC and the Taiwanese IOC member Hsu Heng (徐亨) that IOC violate the Olympic Charter. Thus, IOC modified the Olympic Charter in 1980 which stated that Olympic delegations are recognized National Olympic Committee by the IOC and IOC members cannot sue IOC in after the judgement by the Swiss Court.

ROCOC was renamed as the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (中華奧林匹克委員會) as according to the approved and signed the Agreement between the International Olympic Committee, Lausanne and the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, Taipei (國際奧會與中華台北奧會協議書) by Shen Jia-ming (delegate of the Committee) and Juan Antonio Samaranch whom presented the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 23, 1981 with the assistance of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the President of the IOC. The agreement approved that the delegation of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee using Chinese Taipei (中華臺北) for presenting themselves, and the emblem of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and the Olympic flag of the Chinese Taipei as the symbol of the delegation. Moreover, Chinese Taipei team would using T as the order in the IOC Directory. Therefore, The committee competed for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Games.

As for the sports exchange between Mainland China and Taiwan, delegation or organization from Taiwan would be using "Chinese Taipei (中華台北)" rather than "Chinese Taipei (中國台北)" to participate related events as the agreement on April 6, 1989 in Hong Kong which was signed by Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and the Chinese Olympic Committee.

Symbols

The emblem of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee are the symbols of Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and for the team Chinese Taipei. The periphery shape is plum blossom which symbolizes the National Flower of the Republic of China, and it includes the Olympic rings and the Blue Sky with a White Sun. Note that the Blue Sky with a White Sun is different from both the National Emblem of the Republic of China and the Party Emblem of the Kuomintang although it seems the same as the National Emblem of the Republic of China. For the Olympic flag of Chinese Taipei is the same as the emblem.

National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China is being used as the anthem of Chinese Taipei as the Anthem of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (中華奧林匹克委員會會歌) but not the National Anthem of the Republic of China, after the Agreement signed in 1981 which was approved by the International Olympic Committee in June 1981. In addition, the lyrics were modified with the theory of Olympism when submit for approval in 1981 but that is not common in the society of Taiwan.

List of Presidents

The following table lists all the Presidents of the Olympic Committee: