[2] On 13 October 2023, the IOC ethics committee asked the OCA to annul its 2023 elections due to Talal’s candidacy not fulfilling the eligibility conditions defined by the OCA Constitution and election interference by his brother Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah.
Decades later this would be reorganized and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) was established in New Delhi on 16 November 1982.
[6] Singh's presidential election is set to take place at the OCA General Assembly on 8 September 2024.
Israel, however, was excluded after the Munich Massacre, upon the claim that their delegation security at the Asian Games would be a problem.
[52] The South Caucasian countries opted to join the European Olympic Committees after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Israel was a member of the Asian Games Federation, but was excluded from the Olympic Council of Asia upon its re-incorporation in 1981.