International Olympic Committee
The Lausanne-based body governing the Olympic movement, of which Gianni Infantino is a member.
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Will the IOC's independent ethics process actually investigate FIFA's own president over the Trump Peace Prize?
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Background
The International Olympic Committee became a focal point in FIFA's political-neutrality row on 8 July 2026, when the human rights group FairSquare said it would refer FIFA president Gianni Infantino to the IOC's Ethics Commission over the FIFA Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump. IOC president Kirsty Coventry said a day earlier that no such filing had reached the committee.
Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the IOC governs the Olympic movement and oversees the National Olympic Committees of its member states. Coventry, a former Zimbabwean swimmer, took office as IOC president in June 2025, becoming the first woman, first Zimbabwean and first African to hold the post. Infantino himself has sat as a co-opted IOC member since January 2020, giving the ethics referral against him unusual institutional weight.
The IOC set up an independent Ethics Commission in 1999, the first such body in international sport, to police breaches of its Code of Ethics by members and officials. Whether it takes up a complaint rooted in FIFA's own governance, rather than IOC business proper, will test how FAR its REMIT reaches beyond the Olympic movement.