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The Argentine Olympic Committee or COA ( - COA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Argentina's athletes in the
International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
(IOC), the Pan American Games and the South American Games. It is based in
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
.


History

The COA was created by the president of Argentina
Marcelo T. de Alvear Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (4 October 1868 – 23 March 1942), was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina, president of Argentina between from 1922 to 1928. His period of government coincid ...
in 1923 and recognized by
International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
in the same year.


Presidents


See also

* Argentina at the Olympics *
Argentine Paralympic Committee The Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR; es, Comité Paralímpico Argentino – COPAR) is the private, non-profit organization representing Argentine Paralympic athletes in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Parapan American ...
* Argentina at the Pan American Games


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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
Argentina at the Olympics Ol {{Olympic-org-stub