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• In addition, the USOC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country
• The USOC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U
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• teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States
• The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee
• The IOC is supported by 35 International Federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in each nation, and National Federations that administer each sport at the national level (called National Governing Bodies in the United States)
• Similarly, the National Paralympic Committee is the sole governing body responsible for the selection and training of all athletes participating in the Paralympic Games
• The USOC is one of 204 NOCs and 174 NPCs within the international Olympic and Paralympic Movements
• Forty-seven NGBs are members of the USOC
• Fifteen of the NGBs also manage sports on the Paralympic program, while the USOC governs four Paralympic sports (cycling, skiing, swimming and track & field), and five additional Paralympic sports are governed by U