Dr Richard Budgett was Medical and Scientific Director of the IOC from 2012 to 2024. He was part of the British coxed fours that won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He attended the Winter Olympics in 1992 and 1994 as the doctor for the British Bobsleigh Team. He was Chief Medical Officer to the British team for the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic Games, and led the Team GB HQ medical team at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games and was appointed as CMO to the 2012 London Olympic Games in February 2007. In 2005 he was appointed to the World Anti-Doping Agency list committee and later chaired that committee. He was elected to the council of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2007 and was appointed Chairman of BASEM in 2008. He was also Chairman of the Amateur Rowing Association Medical Committee. He was Chairman of the British Olympic Association Medical Committee, and Director of Medical Services at the British Olympic Medical Institute until he was appointed Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee in 2012. Since 1987 he has conducted research into the problem of Fatigue and Underperformance and has published widely on the subject of Overtraining, which is now called Unexplained Underperformance Syndrome (UUPS).
