And as I replied there, there is no such concept as "inherited statistics" with respect to the IOC.  Medals won by competitors from URS, TCH, FRG, GDR, YUG, etc. in past Games are still recorded as such.  Since the IOC does not publish any summary results (medal totals) that span more than a single Games, they don't have to worry about how to combine them.  The only instances where an old NOC is "replaced" with a current NOC is for name changes (i.e. Ceylon to Sri Lanka, Taiwan/Republic of China to Chinese Taipei, etc.)  I don't know what you mean by "membership rights", but the Russian Olympic Committee, for example, was created in 1989 and recognized in 1993, so clearly is a unique NOC from the Olympic Committee of the USSR. —  (talk · contribs)