JOHN KRIMSKY JR. RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS IOC CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC AWARD
With Paris as the next Summer Olympic Games, we look forward to the Games returning to the United States in 2028 at Los Angeles. It reminds us of how important the partnership between the National Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee is in the conduct of the Games. The IOC made its award to a USOC staffer who accomplished the most for the Olympic Movement in its Centennial year of 1996.
JOHN KRIMSKY RECEIVES IOC CENTENNIAL AWARD
USOC — United States Olympic Committee
October 30, 1996 — John Krimsky Jr.
U.S. Olympic Committee Deputy Secretary General John Krimsky Jr. was given the International Olympic Committee’s Centennial Award in recognition of the fundraising, negotiations, and other outstanding work he completed on behalf of the USOC and its athletes to raise more than one billion dollars for the U.S. Olympic Movement in the past quadrennium.
The award is presented to the Americans who accomplished the most for the Olympic Movement in 1996.
JOHN KRIMSKY JR. HONORED WITH IOC CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC AWARD
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
October 30, 1996 — John Krimsky Jr.
KRIMSKY HONORED: USOC deputy executive director John Krimsky Jr., of Colorado Springs, was given the International Olympic Committee’s Centennial Olympic Award during Saturday’s board meeting.
The award was given to the person who did the most outstanding work in the Olympic movement during 1996.
Krimsky, who in his role as the USOC’s chief fund-raiser, has brought in more than $1 billion, was instrumental in the USOC’s joint-marketing agreement with organizers of the Atlanta Olympics.
He also will serve as president of the USOC’s joint marketing venture with organizers of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
