Olympic family (Olympic Family) is involved in the Olympic movement to all the organizations and individuals collectively, commonly used in a variety of Olympic-related conferences, publications and the Olympic his speech.

    Include the following: the International Olympic Committee, national and regional Olympic Committee, international federations, summer and winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee to participate in the Olympic movement, as well as athletes, coaches, officials, sponsors and other Olympic Games. In recent years due to the mass media and to the Olympic movement growing impact on the Olympic Games media coverage has been included in the Olympic family.

    All members of the Olympic family in the organization is independent, in the status of equality. Cooperation between them on the basis of mutual recognition, "the Olympic Charter" criteria. How to safeguard the unity among the members for a coherent, co-ordination and maintain the normal development of the Olympic movement, the International Olympic Committee has always been a core issue of concern. As former International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch repeatedly pointed out that: "The IOC itself nothing, we need people like us as people need if there is no unity, we will be in the next few months of the collapse." History , the Olympic family have been frequent internal contradictions and conflicts. In Brundage as President of the International Olympic Committee 20 years, because of the amateur principles, Brundage of paternalism and other issues of dispute, within the unity of the Olympic family had a crisis on the issue.

    20 Since the mid-1970s, the IOC adopted a series of adjustment measures, such as the restoration of the long interruption of the 43 members of the Olympic family gathered one, and discuss plans for the Olympic behalf of the General Assembly, strengthening the exchange of information among members, to the Olympic family members including financial assistance, all kinds of support, in the decision-making process pay attention to the views of representatives of the parties, so as to enable members of the Olympic family in the relationship between norms on the basis of a more harmonious together again.

    Many members of the Olympic family in the supporting role of the International Olympic Committee, national and regional Olympic Committee and international federations. As these three organizational system of the Olympic movement's survival and development plays a vital role, and neither is dispensable, it is being called the "three pillars of the Olympic" (Olympic Tripartite).

    Three pillars of the Olympic movement to a different task, the International Olympic Committee is responsible for leadership and coordination of international federations responsible for various technical matters, such as the organization of competitions, competition rules enacted;

    IOC countries and territories in the region are responsible for a wide range of activities, such as team participate in the Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee attaches great importance to the unity and cooperation relations, taken various measures to strengthen the link between the three. First, the three organizations in the leadership of the system to maintain a certain number of part-time staff. Members of the International Olympic Committee in a number of international federations and national Olympic Committee head, as was the first Chairman of the IAAF Aideshi Trondheim and vice chairman of the Brundage served as a International Olympic Committee President. International Olympic Committee members are in their country's national Olympic Committee ex-officio members. National Olympic Committee, international federations are affiliated national sports associations representatives. So in terms of organizations and the formation of the three pillars of you with me, I have your cross-posture, which will help strengthen the communication among the various organizations.

    Secondly, to strengthen inter-organizational consultations, keep the information channels. International Olympic Committee set up a special headquarters and the National Olympic Committee and the international federations to contact the department, and maintain day-to-day communications unimpeded. In addition, the International Olympic Committee also hold regular bilateral meetings, in the three pillars to reach a consensus on important issues, and take action to maintain consistency. IOC and the International Federations and the National Olympic Committee were held at least once every two years will be joint. Moreover, in a number of important matters, the International Olympic Committee allows the individual sports federations and national Olympic Committee to participate in the decision-making process. If the IOC Evaluation Commission cities bidding for the Olympic Games in the International Federations and the National Olympic Committee representatives.

     Finally, the International Olympic Committee adopted the "Olympic marketing plan" to the sale of Olympic television rights income distribution, as well as the establishment of the Olympic Solidarity Fund, etc., to the International Federations and the National Olympic Committee to a growing number of financial support.