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News from member NOCs: IRL, ESP, FRA
The five rings represent the five continents of the world and are interlaced to show the universality of Olympism and the meeting of athletes from around the world at Olympic Games.
It was in particular agree to create a postage stamp in memory of the four leading lights of Spanish Olympism: Lucius Minicius Natalis, the first Spanish Olympic chamion , Gonzalo de Figueroa y Torres, Conde de Mejorada del Campo, Marqués de Villamejor y Duque de Torres, the first IOC member in Spain and the founder of the NOC; Pierre de Coubertin, the father of modern Olympics, and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who was IOC Honorary President, President of the NOC and great promoter of the Olympic Games throughout his life.
Under the agreement, some thirty athletes who are about to or have recently retired from competitive sport will receive help in entering the difficult world of work.
Following a first attempt in