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INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY REPORT ON THE FORTY THIRD INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS 30 JULY – 13 AUGUST 2003 ANCIENT OLYMPIA Published and edited jointly by the International Olympic Academy and the International Olympic Committee 52, Dimitrios Vikelas Avenue, 152 33, Halandri - Athens, GREECE 2004 Scientific Supervisor: Dr Konstantinos GEORGIADIS, I.O.A. Dean INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY FORTY THIRD SESSION MAIN SUBJECT: OLYMPISM SPECIAL SUBJECT: EDUCATION THROUGH SPORT 30 JULY – 13 AUGUST 2003 ANCIENT OLYMPIA EPHORIA OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY President Nikos FILARETOS (I.O.C.Member) 1st Vice-President Lambis NIKOLAOU (I.O.C.Member) Dean Kostantinos GEORGIADIS Members Dimitris DIATHESSOPOULOS Stelios AGELOUDIS Leonidas VAROUXIS Konstantinos KARTALIS Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Fani PALLI-PETRALIA Andreas FOURAS Honorary President Juan Antonio SAMARANCH Honorary Vice-President Nikolaos YALOURIS THE HELLENIC OLYMPIC COMMITTEE President Lambis NIKOLAOU (I.O.C. Member) 1st Vice-President Spyros ZANNIAS 2nd Vice-President Freddy SERPIERIS Secretary General Dimitris DIATHESSOPOULOS Treasurer Athanassios BELIGRATIS Deputy Secretary General Athanassios PRAGALOS Deputy Treasurer Andreas ARVANITIS Member ex-officio Nikos FILARETOS (I.O.C. Member) Members Stelios AGELOUDIS 7 Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS Ioannis VASSILIADIS Pyrros DIMAS Dimitris DIMITROPOULOS Ilias DIAMANDIS Theodoros THEODORIDIS Pavlos KANELLAKIS Emmanouel KATSIADAKIS Emmanuel KOLIMBADIS Georgios LISSARIDIS Thomas MEDESSIDIS Panayotis MITSIOPOULOS Fani PALLI-PETRALIA Ioannis PANTELIDIS Ioannis PAPADOYANNAKIS Paraskevi PATOULIDOU Konstantinos PAVLOYANNIS Ioannis SGOUROS Vassilis SEVASTIS Christos SMYRLIS-LIAKATAS Georgios TSOGAS Andreas FOURAS Georgios HALKIDIS Theodoros HAMAKOS Theodoros CHRONOPOULOS 8 IOC COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION Chairman Zhenliang HE (CHN) Vice Chairman: Nikos FILARETOS (GRE) Members : Vittorio ADORNI (ITA) Fernando F. Lima BELLO (POR) Valeriy BORZOV (UKR) Helen BROWNLEE (AUS) Charmaine CROOKS (CAN) Iván DIBOS (PER) Conrado DURÁNTEZ (ESP) Kostas GEORGIADIS (GRE) Nat INDRAPANA (THA) Karl LENNARTZ (GER) Marc MAES (BEL) Alicia MASONI de MOREA (ARG) Norbert MÜLLER (GER) Roque-Napoléon MUÑOZ-PEÑA (DOM) Carol MUSHETT (USA) Mohamed MZALI (TUN) Lambis V. NIKOLAOU (GRE) Francis Were NYANGWESO (UGA) Robert PARIENTE (FRA) Sam RAMSAMY (RSA) Thomas P. ROSANDICH (USA) 9 Mounir SABET (EGY) Henri SÉRANDOUR (FRA) Klaus SCHORMANN (GER) Ching-Kuo WU (TPE) 10 “ALL OF YOU PRESENT IN OLYMPIA: ONCE YOU GO BACK TO YOUR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES, YOU WILL HAVE TO SECURE THAT SPORT SPREADS POSITIVE VALUES, SUCH AS RESPECT FOR ONESELF AND RESPECT FOR THE OTHERS, SOLIDARITY AND FAIR PLAY. WE ALL HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO ENTRENCH THESE VALUES” Quotation from the message from the IOC President Dr Jacques ROGGE at the Opening Ceremony of the 43rd International Session for Young Participants of the International Olympic Academy. Ancient Olympia, 2 August 2003 The Hill of the Pnyx during the Opening Ceremony of the Session. The Acropolis and the flags. FOREWORD The 43rd International Session for Young Participants was held at the IOA premises in Ancient Olympia on the special subject: "Education through Sports". There were 178 participants (92 women and 86 men) from 98 countries, 13 lecturers (10 men and 3 women), 19 guests (9 men and 10 women) and 31 coordinators (15 men and 16 women) who attended the Session. Among the participants there were three who attended the Session thanks to the scholarship offered by the International Olympic Academy annually in honor of Mr Nikolaos Nissiotis, Mr Otto Szymiczek and Mr Cleanthis Palaiologos. The official Opening Ceremony of the Session was held in the afternoon of 31st July at the Hill of the Pnyx, in the presence of representatives from the field of Politics, Athletics and Culture. The President of the International Olympic Academy, Dr Nikos Filaretos, the Under-Secretary of State for Sports, Mr George Lianis, and, on behalf of the lecturers, Professor Stephen Miller, addressed dignitaries and participants. The President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee and Member of the IOC Executive Committee, Mr Lambis Nikolaou, declared the works of the Session opened. Messages were also communicated from the IOC Honorary President for life H.E. Juan Antonio Samaranch and the Mayor of Athens, Mrs Dora Bakoyanni. The International Olympic Academy has henceforth decided to honor every year eminent intellectuals and sportsmen who have offered distinguished services not only to the Letters and Arts but mostly to the Olympic Movement. For this purpose, the following three equivalent awards have been established: ? LYMPIA, ATHENS, DELPHI. At the opening ceremony of the 43rd International Session at the Hill of the Pnyx, the Professor of Philosophy of the University of Athens, academic, former President of the Academy of Athens, former Minister of Education, veteran athlete and lecturer in Sessions of the IOA, Mr Konstantinos 13 Despotopoulos, was honored. Mrs Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou, former champion of Greece in 80 meters hurdles, long jump and high jump, the first Greek woman athlete who participated in the Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1936 and Mrs Gianna Despotopoulou, economist, who, in her capacity as President of Special Olympics Hellas has developed a remarkable activity both in Greece and abroad and promoted this institution to a great extent, were also honored. The following day, the participants departed to Olympia via Delphi where they were shown round the Museum and the evocative archaeological site. In his address and introductory speech during the Opening Ceremony of the works of the Session in Olympia, the IOA President Dr Nikos Filaretos presented the educational aspects of Olympism? furthermore the participants had the opportunity to see and listen to a recorded message from the IOC President, Dr Jacques ROGGE, addressing the opening of the works of the Session. The Vice-Prefect of Elis, Mr Haralambos Kafiras, and the Mayor of Ancie nt Olympia, Mr Yannis Skoularikis, honored the ceremony with their presence and addressed the participants. After the ceremony, a laying of wreaths took place at the stele of Pierre de Coubertin, renovator of the Modern Olympic Games and at the commemorative monument of Ioannis Ketseas and Carl Diem, pioneers of the International Olympic Academy. The lectures developed the aspects and parameters of Education through Sports. The works began with the speech of the General Secretary to the Ministry of Culture for the Olympic Games, Professor Konstantinos Kartalis, who, in his extremely interesting lecture presented the relation of education with sports and culture in the programme of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. The General Director of the International Olympic Truce Centre, Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis presented “Sports as a Platform to Educate World Peace”. Special reference to the Olympic Games and Olympism was made by the world champion in javelin throwing, Mrs Sofia Sakorafa. The distinguished Professor of Berkeley University of California, Dr Stephen Miller, lectured on the subject “Plato in the Gymnasium”, while the Lecturer in the Department of Physical Education, Sports Science and 14 Recreation in Loughborough University, Dr Eleni Theodoraki, pointed out the future objectives of educational systems. The Managing Director of the "Athens 2004" Organising Committee, Mr Yannis Spanoudakis, dealt with the financial aspects of the Olympic Games and with the issue of Sports and Olympic Games as sources of employment. The President "Doctors Without Borders - Greece" Dr Konstantinos Papaioannou, approaching the Olympic Movement, presented the principles, action and role of “Doctors without Borders – Greece” within the contemporary volunteer / humanitarian movement. The volunteer movement in the Olympic Games was the subject of the lecture of the Manager of the Volunteer Selection and Orientation Training of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games of "Athens 2004", Mrs Olga Kikou. Two personalities of world sports, Dr Kipchoge Keino and Mr Sergey Bubka, took part in the works of the Session and they presented their Olympic experiences and their post-Olympic voluntary activities in the education and sports field. Mr Denis Oswald, IOC Member, ASOIF (Association of Summer Olympics International Federations) President and Chairman of the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission for the Games of 2004 lectured on “The Policy of the ASOIF in dealing with Doping and the Athletes’ Education”. A great success of this year's Session was the presence of the President of the International Paralympic Committee, Mr Philip Craven, and the President and CEO of the Special Olympics International, Dr Timothy Shriver, who gave a joint lecture on the social integration of Paralympic athletes and athletes of Special Olympics through Sports Education. For the first time, the Presidents of Paralympics and Special Olympics presented their activities and objectives in a joint session. Equally successful were also the activities of the Academy during the Session that aimed at the creation of a friendly relationship among participants with different cultures through artistic activities (Fine Art, Literature and Poetry Workshops), sports activities (basketball, track, football, volleyball, table -tennis, tennis, swimming) and social activities (sketches, games, traditional dances). 15 Moreover, an Internet workshop for beginners took place during the Session under the guidance