INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS 11-25 JUNE 2008 PROCEEDINGS ANCIENT OLYMPIA 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 3 12/23/09 4:00:20 PM Commemorative seal of the Session Published by the International Olympic Academy and the International Olympic Committee 2009 International Olympic Academy 52, Dimitrios Vikelas Avenue 152 33 Halandri - Athens GREECE Tel.: +30 210 6878809-13, +30 210 6878888 Fax: +30 210 6878840 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ioa.org.gr Editor Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos Georgiadis, IOA Honorary Dean ISBN: 978-960-14-2134-6 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 4 12/23/09 4:00:20 PM INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY FORTY-EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS SPECIAL SUBJECT: HUMANISM AND OLYMPIC MOVEMENT ANCIENT OLYMPIA 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 5 12/23/09 4:00:20 PM 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 6 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM CONTENTS EPHORIA OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY (2008) President Minos X. KYRIAKOU Vice-President Isidoros KOUVELOS Members Lambis V. NIKOLAOU (IOC Vice-President) Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Antonios NIKOLOPOULOS Evangelos SOUFLERIS Panagiotis KONDOS Leonidas VAROUXIS Georgios FOTINOPOULOS Honorary President Juan Antonio SAMARANCH Honorary Vice-President Nikolaos YALOURIS Honorary Dean Konstantinos GEORGIADIS 7 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 7 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM HELLENIC OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (2008) President Minos X. KYRIAKOU 1st Vice-President Isidoros KOUVELOS 2nd Vice-President Spyros ZANNIAS Secretary General Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Treasurer Pavlos KANELLAKIS Deputy Secretary General Antonios NIKOLOPOULOS Deputy Treasurer Ioannis KARRAS IOC Member ex-officio Lambis V. NIKOLAOU Members Stelios AGGELOUDIS Ioannis ANTONOPOULOS Niki BAKOYIANNI Athanassios BELIGRATIS Christos CHATZIATHANASSIOU Dimitris DIATHESSOPOULOS Michalis FISSENTZIDIS Andreas FOURAS Vassilis GAGATSIS Nikos KAKLAMANAKIS Manolis KOLYMBADIS Panagiotis KONDOS Pavlos LAPPAS Thomas MEDESSIDIS Ioannis PSARELIS Dimitris RAZIS Vassilis SEVASTIS Freddy SERPIERIS Ioannis SGOUROS Georgios SMYRNEOS Evangelos SOUFLERIS Petros SYNADINOS Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS Athanasios VASSILIADIS Ioannis VASSILIADIS Konstantinos WILLS Georgios YEROLYMPOS 8 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 8 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION (2008) Chairman Zhenliang HE (CHN) Members Haya Bint AL HUSSEIN (UAE) Fernando F. Lima BELLO (POR) Valeriy BORZOV (UKR) Helen BROWNLEE (AUS) Philip CRAVEN (GBR) Iván DIBÓS (PER) Conrado DURÁNTEZ (ESP) Hicham EL GUERROUJ (MAR) Manuel ESTIARTE (ESP) Timothy TSUN-TING FOK (CHN) Konstantinos GEORGIADIS (GRE) Nat INDRAPANA (THA) Minos X. KYRIAKOU (GRE) Karl LENNARTZ (GER) Vladimir LISIN (RUS) Marc MAES (BEL) Alicia MASONI de MOREA (ARG) Samih MOUDALLAL (SYR) Norbert MÜLLER (GER) Roque-Napoléon MUÑOZ-PEÑA (DOM) Mohamed MZALI (TUN) Lambis V. NIKOLAOU (GRE) Francis Were NYANGWESO (UGA) Enrico PRANDI (ITA) Sam RAMSAMY (RSA) Thomas P. ROSANDICH (USA) Mounir SABET (EGY) Melitόn SANCHEZ RIVAS (PAN) Klaus SCHORMANN (GER) Henri SÉRANDOUR (FRA) Antun VRDOLJAK (CRO) Ching-Kuo WU (TPE) 9 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 9 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 10 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM CONTENTS «The 2008 Games will be a historic event which will reach a fifth of the world’s population … It will thus be a unique occasion for China and the world to experience the Olympic values directly, to be the privileged witnesses of the excellence, friendship and respect embodied by sport, and the harmony, understanding and peace it generates» Quotation from the message of the IOC President, Dr Jacques ROGGE, at the Opening Ceremony of the 48th International Session for Young Participants of the International Olympic Academy Hill of the Pnyx, 12th June 2008 11 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 11 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 12 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM CONTENTS CONTENTS Fore rd by the Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy, Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS ...............................................................19 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS HILL OF THE PnYX, 12 JUne 2008 Prize Awarding by the International Olympic Academy....................................25 Message from the President of the International Olympic Committee, Dr Jacques RO gg E ...........................................................................................32 Address by the Deputy Minister of Culture with Responsibilities For Sport, Giannis IOANNIDIS ..............................................................................................34 Message from the Mayor of Athens, Nikitas KA K LAMANIS ............................................................................................36 Address on behalf of the Lecturers of the Session, by Prof. Wojciech LIPONS K I (POL) .....................................................................39 13 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 13 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS Address and Opening of the Works of the Session by the President of the International Olympic Academy and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Minos X. KYRIA K OU ...........................................................................................41 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS, AncIent OLYMPIA, 14 JUne 2008 Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Minos X. KYRIA K OU ...........................................................................................45 Address by the Member of the Ephoria of the International Olympic Academy, Leonidas VAROUXIS ...........................................................................................47 Address by the Prefect of Elis, Haralambos KAFYRAS ........................................................................................48 Address by the Mayor of Ancient Olympia, Georgios AIDONIS ..............................................................................................51 WORKS OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS ANCIENT OLYMPIA Lectures Olympism and Humanism: Practices and representations at school Dr Eric MONNIN (FRA) .......................................................................................55 14 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 14 12/23/09 4:00:21 PM CONTENTS CONTENTS Foreword by the Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy, Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS ...............................................................19 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS HILL OF THE PnYX, 12 JUne 2008 Prize Awarding by the International Olympic Academy....................................25 Message from the President of the International Olympic Committee, Dr Jacques RO gg E ...........................................................................................32 Address by the Deputy Minister of Culture with Responsibilities For Sport, Giannis IOANNIDIS ..............................................................................................34 Message from the Mayor of Athens, Nikitas KA K LAMANIS ............................................................................................36 Address on behalf of the Lecturers of the Session, by Prof. Wojciech LIPONS K I (POL) .....................................................................39 13 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 13 12/28/09 7:44:03 AM 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS Address and Opening of the Works of the Session by the President of the International Olympic Academy and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Minos X. KYRIA K OU ...........................................................................................41 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS, AncIent OLYMPIA, 14 JUne 2008 Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Minos X. KYRIA K OU ...........................................................................................45 Address by the Member of the International Olympic Academy Ephoria, Leonidas VAROUXIS ...........................................................................................47 Address by the Prefect of Elis, Haralambos KAFYRAS ........................................................................................48 Address by the Mayor of Ancient Olympia, Georgios AIDONIS ..............................................................................................51 WORKS OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS ANCIENT OLYMPIA Lectures Olympism and Humanism: Practices and representations at school Dr Eric MONNIN (FRA) .......................................................................................55 14 48hDoaAggliko003s022.indd 14 12/28/09 7:44:03 AM CONTENTS Conclusions of the Discussion Groups Cycle Αʹ .........................................................................................................221 Cycle Βʹ .........................................................................................................256 CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE 48th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS, AncIent OLYMPIA, 23 JUne 2008 Address on behalf of the Participants of the Session, by Shiba MA gg ON (IND) .................................................................................297 by Anders Voigt TINNIN G (DEN) ......................................................................299 Address on behalf of the