Mbaye, 73, vice president of the International Court of Justice, was named to his second term as IOC vice president by acclamation. Mbaye had earlier served as IOC vice president from 1988-1992 and was just finishing his second term on the IOC's Executive Board.

Meanwhile, Marc Hodler, the head of the IOC's Coordination Commission for the Nagano Olympic Winter Games opening Saturday, was returned by acclamation to a seat on the Executive Board.

Hodler, 79, whose term as IOC vice president ended last September, was returned to the IOC's top administrative organ for a third time.

A second seat available on the executive board will decided by a vote of the IOC session Thursday.

The candidates are Ivan Dibos of Peru, Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Rana, Jacques Rogge of Belgium and Anton Geesink, the former gold medal-winning judoka from the Netherlands.

Dibos is the former mayor of Lima and member of the Peruvian Olympic Committee. Vazquez Rana was a former world record holder in shooting and president of the International Shooting Union (UIT).

Rogge is the president of the Association of European National Olympic Committees and chairman of the coordination commission for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Geesink was the gold medalist in the open category of the judo competition at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

(Kyodo News)