Contents Prefaces

Gilbert FELLI, IOC Executive Director for the Olympic Games 5 TilmannMÄRK, Rector of the university of Innsbruck 7

Youth Olympic Games

AUSTRIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE, Youth Olympic Games,

a Chance for the Future of Sports 9

Nikephoros

Werner PETERMANDL/Christoph ULF, The contribution of the journal 'Nikephoros' to the Cultural and Education Programme of the Youth Olympic Games 17 Ingomar WEILER, Victory and 'Bringer of Victory' Nike and Nikephoros 21

Sport in Antiquity

An International Matter

Wolfgang DECKER, Sports in Ancient Egypt 23 Sylvia HUTTER-BRAUNSAR, Sports in Hittite Anatolia 35

Wolfgang DECKER, Sport in Minoan Crete and in the Mycenaean World 41

Organisation

Ingomar WEILER, The Olympic Games - Apart from Sport. A Cultural and Social Event Beyond the Competitive Olympia 53 Fernando GARCIA ROMERO, Sports Festivals Like the Olympic Games: Iso-Olympics 59

Kaja HARTER-UmoPUU, Organization and Sponsorship 73

Age, Sex and Status

Werner PETERMANDL, Age-Categories in Greek Athletic Contests 85 Monika FRASS, Female Sports in Classical Greece 95

Harry W. PLEKET, The Social Status of Greek Athletes 103

The Successful Athlete

Gordon HOWIE, The Role of the Father and the Family in an Athlete's Participation and in the Celebration of His Victory 107 Zinon PAPAKONSTANTINOU, Youth Sport Participation and Victory in Archaic Greece 121 Harry W. PLEKET, The Reward of the Ancient Athlete 131

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Peter MAURITSCH, "... Through Blood to Victory" - A Few Remarks on Ancient Combat Sport 135 Ingomar WEILER, Handicapped People: Sports and Entertainment in Antiquity and Today 141 Martin KORENJAK, What Does it Mean: Mens sana in corpore sanol A Latin Adage and its Curious Career 147

Olympic Games on Their Way Becoming Modern

Wolfgang DECKER, The First Project for Modern Olympics: The Memorandum of I. Kolettis/P. Soutsos of the Year 1835 to Otto I, King of Greece 155 Joachim RÜHL, Youth and Sports at the Much Wenlock Olympian Games in Shropshire/England from 1850 to 1895 171 Norbert MÜLLER, The Olympic Motto "citius, altius, fortius" and its Author Henri Didon 183 Stephan WASSONG, Intercultural Education for Student Youth: A Fundamental Idea of Pierre de Coubertin 199 Rudolf MÜLLNER, The Médiatisation of the Modern Olympic Games and How it All Began 213

Youth, Sport, and Olympic Games Today

Christoph ULF, Athletes - Cultural Actors in Competition 221 Christian RASCHNER, Youth Athletes: Talent Selection and Age-Appropriate Performance Optimisation in Austrian Alpine Ski Racing 229 Martin SCHNITZER, Winter Youth Olympic Games Innsbruck 2012 239 Helmut ALTENBERGER/Jürgen HOFMANN, The Youth Olympic Games - A Serious Business or Just for Fun? 245 Lynne CHISHOLM, Representation and Risk: Youth and Sports in Today's World 255

List of contributors 267