Julio Bustamente was a professor physical science and mathematics who taught at the Central University of Venezuela and the University of Caracas. His primary sport was football, which he played on several teams, and later officiated. Bustamente founded the Venezuelan Football Federation in 1927 and led the national team to the first Bolivarian Games in Bogota, Colombia in 1938. Bustamente was President of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee from 1950-54, and led the Organizing Committees for the 1951 Bolivarian Games and the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games, both held in Caracas. Bustamente was co-opted onto the IOC in July 1952, and served until his death in June 1968.
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