Amongst the most well known Cypriots who have represented Greece are Ioannis Frangoudis[2] (triple shooting medalist in Athens 1896), Aristidis Konstantinidis (cycling gold medalist in Athens 1896), Stavros Tziortzis[3] (7th in the 400m hurdles in Munich 1972) and Lakis Georgiou Psimolofitis (8th in skeet shooting in Munich 1972).

Since then, Cyprus has been present at every Summer and Winter Olympic Games as well as other multisport events in continental and world level.

Other successes for Cyprus at Olympic level were the 4th and 5th place by Antonis Nikolaidis and Georgios Achilleos respectively at the Beijing 2008 skeet shooting event,[6] and the placing of six athletes[7] (Kyriakos Ioannou, Pavlos Kontides, Milan Trajkovic, Apostolos Parellis, Dimitrios Chondrokoukis and Marios Georgiou) in their event finals in the Rio 2016 Games.

The Olympic House covers an area of 7500 m2 and cost 5,63 million Cyprus pounds.

More than 400 artifacts are on display in the Olympic Museum, including the suit worn by Pavlos Kontides at London 2012, a medal won by Theofanis Theodotou in the Zappas Olympics in 1888 and sporting gear of the 1946 Boston Marathon winner Stylianos Kyriakides.

In a way of implementing the beliefs and ideals of the Olympic Movement, the COC organizes events which inspire people and the younger generation.

[13] The COC also organizes events which target to integrate and introduce sports to persons from sensitive groups such as refugees.