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CYPRUS OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ELECTS PRESIDENTNETHERLANDS IS FIRST NOC TO SIGN UP TO IBISDinos Michaelides has been elected President of the Cyprus Olympic Committee. He will replace the former President, Ouranios M. Ioannides, until the end of his mandate. Ioannides resigned on 13 June for health reasons. Michaelides competed at a high level in various sports, and was the holder of several national records in athletics. He is also currently the President of the National Olympic Academy of Cyprus.In June, the Netherlands Olympic Committee * Netherlands Sports Confederations (NOC*NSF) became the first NOC to sign up to the Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS). A digital intelligence-sharing platform, IBIS will enable the Dutch NOC and its national federations to access an extensive network of monitoring and data-sharing across sports, sports event organisers and the major sports betting entities. The move forms part of the NOC’s larger vision of sport and integrity, which includes the introduction of a national compliance programme for all sports. The IOC initially took on board all Summer and Winter Olympic International Federations and is now opening up IBIS to other key stakeholders of the Olympic Movement.Athletes from a record 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Olympic Games Rio 2016, with Kosovo and South Sudan sending athletes to the Games for the first time and more NOCs celebrating medal success than ever before.In total, athletes from 87 NOCs won medals in Rio, with Fiji, Jordan and Kosovo all celebrating their first-ever Olympic medals. Fiji won gold in the inaugural men’s rugby sevens event, while Jordan’s Ahmad Abughaush won taekwondo gold in the men’s -68kg category and Kosovo’s Majlinda Kelmendi topped the podium in the women’s -52kg judo event.Six NOCs – Bahrain, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Vietnam, Tajikistan and Côte d’Ivoire – also celebrated their first-ever Olympic gold medals.Ruth Jebet won the women’s 3,000m steeplechase for Bahrain; Mónica Puig won women’s singles tennis gold for Puerto Rico; Singapore’s Joseph Schooling beat Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos and László Cseh to win the men’s 100m butterfly; Hoàng Xuân Vinh won shooting gold for Vietnam in the men’s 10m air pistol event; Tajikistan’s Dilshod Nazarov won the men’s hammer throw; and Cheick Sallah Cissé won gold in the men’s -80kg taekwondo for Côte d’Ivoire.There were also 825 individual com petitors, 171 NOCs and the Refugee Olympic Team who were helped by Olympic Solidarity, winning 101 individual medals (33 gold) and eight team medals (four gold) between them. This list includes history makers Kelmendi, Nazarov, Cissé and the Fiji rugby sevens team.NOCS MAKE HISTORY IN RIOBelow Vietnamese shooter Hoàng Xuân Vinh won the NOC’s first-ever gold medalOLYMPIC REVIEW 21