Annotation

Currently, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has the status of a private corporation. This legal status does not suit the IOC at all, which from the very moment of its establishment has been determined to conduct a dialogue with states on equal terms and to feel itself a full-fledged subject of international public law, that is, a subject with the legal capacity of an international intergovernmental organization (IGO), such as, for example, the UN. However, recognition of such a status, due to obvious reasons, is impossible on the part of the absolute majority of states. Therefore, the IOC has to create special forms of interaction with states and justify special Olympic principles, such as organizational and legal autonomy of sports, which presupposes non-interference of states in the Olympic sphere.