First International Olympic Committee members, Athens, April 10, 1896. From left, foreground: the initiator of the modern Olympic Games, IOC President Pierre de Coubertin; the first IOC President (1894-1986), Greek philologist Demetrios Vikelas; and sports official, one of the IOC founders and member Alexei Butovsky. From left, background: German doctor Willibald Gebhardt, one of the founders of the IOC; Professor Jiri Guth-Jarkovsky (Bohemia), founder and secretary of the Hungarian National Olympic Committee; writer Ferenc Kemeny and Swedish athlete Viktor Gustaf Balck.