Agustín Arroyo

Agustín Arroyo was the son of a President of Ecuador, and the cousin of Carlos Arroyo del Rio, Ecuadorian President from 1940-44. Agustín served as Ecuador’s Ambassador to Great Britain 1977-79 and civil attaché to the Ecuadorian Embassy in the United States in 1943. He was a lawyer and an industrialist who was President of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee from 1964-68, and headed several National Sports Federations, including judo, shooting, weightlifting, wrestling, and taekwondo. Arroyo was also a dog breeder who served as a judge at dog shows in Guayaquil.

Arroyo was co-opted onto the IOC in 1968, after a 40-year absence in which Ecuador did not have a member. He served on the Juridical Commission (1983-87, 1993-1998), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (1983), and the Radio and Television Commission (1989-95). During the Olympic Bribery Scandal of 1998-99, Arroyo was investigated by the IOC Ad Hoc Commission, was suspended from the IOC in January 1999, and was expelled by the IOC Membership in March 1999, by a vote of 72-16 with two abstentions. This occurred after it was revealed that his daughter, Nancy Rignault Arroyo, received living expenses in Salt Lake City from the 2002 Organizing Committee for the period June 1992 into 1995.