{"id":14444,"date":"2016-08-09T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2016-08-09T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T10:57:53","slug":"angela-ruggiero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/angela-ruggiero\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Ruggiero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently who has been elected as the new Chair of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s (IOC) Athletes&#8217; Commission?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Dennis Oswald<br \/>\n(b) Thomas Beck<br \/>\n(c) Anita De Frank<br \/>\n(d) Angela Ruggiero<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">American ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero was elected as the new Chair of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s (IOC) Athletes&#8217; Commission.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">IOC President Thomas Bach officially appointed Ruggiero during joint meeting between the IOC athletes\u2019 commission and the IOC executive board.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She will replace Claudia Bokel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She played 256 games for the U.S. Women\u2019s National Team over the course of 15 years which is the most in the team\u2019s history.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is the current Vice-Chair of the IOC Athletes\u2019 Commission.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is a 1998 Olympic gold medalist, 2002 Olympic silver medalist, 2006 Olympic bronze medalist and 2010 Olympic silver medalist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/angela-ruggiero-to-head-ioc-athletes-commission\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/angela-ruggiero-to-head-ioc-athletes-commission<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iocmedia\/status\/760114589853945856\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/iocmedia\/status\/760114589853945856<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/olympics2016\/story\/angela-ruggiero-international-olympic-committee-athletes-commission\/1\/729627.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/olympics2016\/story\/angela-ruggiero-international-olympic-committee-athletes-commission\/1\/729627.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/career-by-the-numbers-hhof-inductee-angela-ruggiero\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/career-by-the-numbers-hhof-inductee-angela-ruggiero\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently who has been elected as the new Chair of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s (IOC) Athletes&#8217; Commission? (a) Dennis Oswald (b) Thomas Beck (c) Anita De Frank (d) Angela Ruggiero Ans: (d) Related facts: American ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero was elected as the new Chair of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s (IOC) Athletes&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsper","tag-sports-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}