Baron Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Inspired by the ancient Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece, which ended in 393 AD, Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin decided to pursue his project to revive the Olympic Games.

On the eve of semi-finals of international case championship, which is organised by the by the IOC Olympic Studies Centre and the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany)., team of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration was disqualified based on the recommendations by the Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).