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Godefroy de Blonay
Swiss member of the International Olympic Committee (1869–1937)
Godefroy Jean Henri Louis de Blonay (25 July 1869, Niederschöntal, Switzerland – 14 February 1937, Biskra, French Algeria) was an important early member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Career
From 1899, de Blonay was the first Swiss member on the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He remained on the committee for 38 years, until his death in 1937, being the 24th on the roll of members since 1884; Pierre de Coubertin being number one.
In 1912, de Blonay was one of the founders of the Swiss Olympic Association and for the first three years (until 1915), he was also the association's first president.
Baron de Blonay was, for a time, one of the closest confidants of the IOC's second president Pierre de Coubertin.
When de Coubertin joined the French army in 1916, de Blonay became the acting president of the IOC. Earlier, when de Coubertin had nearly run out of money and took a ba