The Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee for Saudi Arabia, with origins reaching to 1964 and a formal restructuring establishing its current dual Olympic-Paralympic mandate in 2019, headquartered in Riyadh. It selects and fields Saudi Arabia's Olympic team amid a period of substantial state investment in domestic and international sport during the 2020s, spanning football, golf, boxing and Formula One motorsport hosting.
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is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee representing Saudi Arabia
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1964
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Associated With: International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Lead sentence 1
is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee representing Saudi Arabia.
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Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their athletes' participation in the Olympic Games.
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