Mexican Olympic Committee

The Mexican Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Mexicano) (COM) is the organization that represents Mexican athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.

[1] As early as the 1900 Universal Exposition of Paris, Baron Pierre de Coubertin had the idea of Mexico entering the next Olympic Games.

In 1901, Coubertin met with the Mexican ambassador in Belgium, where they decided to form the National Olympic Committee of Mexico.

[citation needed] After this meeting, they sent a letter on May 25, 1901 to General Porfirio Diaz (the president of Mexico at the time) to inform him that Beistegui would be the representative of Mexico before the International Olympic Committee.

He arrived in Mexico after visiting the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay on February 16, 1923.