INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY th 9 INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR ON OLYMPIC STUDIES 5/5 - 15/6/2001 th 5 JOINT INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR EDUCATIONISTS AND STAFF OF HIGHER INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION 20 - 27/7/2001 th 6 INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR DIRECTORS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMIES 29/7 - 5/8/2001 ANCIENT OLYMPIA GREECE ISBN: 960-8144-72-8 ISSN: 1108-6831 Published and edited by the International Olympic Academy. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Konstantinos Georgiadis/IOA Dean. Athens 2001 - 2 - EPHORIA OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY President Nikos FILARETOS (I.O.C. Member) 1st Vice-President Lambis NIKOLAOU (I.O.C. Member) Dean Konstantinos GEORGIADIS Members Dimitris DIATHESSOPOULOS Stelios AGELOUDIS Leonidas VAROUXIS Konstantinos KARTALIS Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Georgios MOISSIDIS Andreas FOURAS Honorary President Juan Antonio SAMARANCH Honorary Vice-President Nikolaos YALOURIS 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 Members Nikos FILARETOS (I.O.C. Member) Stelios AGELOUDIS Georgios ANEMOYANNIS Georgios CHALKIDIS Theodoros CHAMAKOS Theodoros CHRONOPOULOS - 3- Ilias DIAMANDIS Pyrros DIMAS Dimitris DIMITROPOULOS Andreas FOURAS Pavlos KANELLAKIS Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Emmanuel KOLYMBADIS Georgios LISSARIDIS Thomas MEDESSIDIS Panagiotis MITSIOPOULOS Fani PALLI-PETRALIA Ioannis PANTELIDIS Ioannis PAPADOGIANNAKIS Paraskevi PATOULIDOU Konstantinos PAVLOGIANNIS Ioannis SGOUROS Vassilis SEVASTIS Christos SMYRLIS-LIAKATAS Theodoros THEODORIDIS Georgios TSOGHAS Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS Ioannis VASSILIADIS -4- I.O.C. COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION Chairman Zhenliang HE IOC member in China Vice-Chairman Nikos FILARETOS IOC member in Greece Members Fernando Ferreira Lima BELLO IOC member in Portugal Valeriy BORZOV IOC member in the Ukraine Ivan DIBOS IOC member in Peru Nat INDRAPANA IOC member in Thailand Major General Francis NYANGWESO IOC member in Uganda Lambis W. NIKOLAOU IOC member in Greece General Mounir SABET IOC member in Egypt Ching-Kuo WU IOC member in Chinese Taipei Representatives of IFs Juan Angel CALZADO Klaus SCHORMANN Representatives of NOCs Fernando BELTRANEN-VALLADARES George MOISSIDES Henri SERANDOUR Athletes representative Chairman CROOKS International Paralympic Carol MUSHETT Committee Individual Members Vittorio ADORNI Manfred BERGMAN Helen BROWNLEE — 5 — Conrado DURANTEZ Jean DURRY Kostas GEORGIADIS Yoon-bang KWON Marc MAES Alicia MASONI de MOREA Norbert MÜLLER Robert PARIENTE Thomas ROSANDICH -6- PROLOGUE This annual report includes the minutes of three Sessions of the IOA for the year 2001: the 9th Postgraduate Seminar, the 5th Joint Session for Educators and Officials of Higher Institutes of Physical Education and the 6th International Session for Directors of NOAs. Each Session had a special subject which was treated by the invited lecturers. The IOA activities began with the 9th Postgraduate Seminar on Olympic Studies held at the IOA premises from May 5th to June 15th 2001. The special subject of the Seminar was: "Olympic Games: An overview of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and "Athens 2004", identical to the special subject of the 4th Session, the minutes of which are published in another Annual Report. Thirty selected students (11 men and 19 women) from 23 countries participated in the 9th Postgraduate Seminar. As in 2000, the number of women exceeded the number of men. Students from Slovenia, Ro- mania, Puerto Rico, FYROM and Ecuador took part in the Seminar for the first time. The high level works of the Seminar were supervised by the following distinguished professors: Dr. Wolfgang Decker (Ger- many), Dr. Evangelos Albanidis (Greece), Mr. David Wallenchinsky (U.S.A.), Dr. Kostas Georgiadis (Greece), Dr. Norbert Müller (Germany), Dr. Wojciech Liponsky (Poland), Dr. John MacAloon (U.S.A.), Dr. Angela Schneider (Canada), Dr. Bruce Kidd (Canada), Dr. John Daly (Austra- lia). Most of the participants were Ph.D. candidates (18) and post- graduate Master students (9). In addition, an administrative employee of the IOC library, a NOA Director and an Undergraduate student took part in the Seminar. Most students attended PE courses (17). The rest of them came from the following Schools: Medicine (1), Archaeology (1), Political Sci- ences and Philosophy (1), Psychology (1), Economics (1), Mathematics- History (1), the Pedagogical Institute (1), and Journalism (1). The students were, as every year, guided around Athens, in the archaeological sites and the Acropolis Museum, the Ancient Agora, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, the archaeological sites of Isthmus, Nemea, Epidauros, Mycenae, the Temple of Epikourios Apollo (Vassai), Olympia and Delphi. - 7 - Stephen Miller, (supervisor of the excavations), offered an excellent two- hour tour at the archaeological sites and the Museum of Nemea. All the students attended the lectures given by the supervising lecturers, with great interest. The professors' lectures regarded subjects related to sport in Ancient Greece, the Ancient and Modern Olympic Games, the Olympic Education, the social and political parameters of the Olympic Movement and the philosophy and ethics of the Olympic ideal. The fact that the majority of students wished to conduct a doctorate thesis related to the Olympic Movement was remarkable. The presentations of the student's papers constituted an important asset to the success of the program. There was a significant number of original research papers and most of the students were informed for the first time on the research work and the views of other col- leagues from different parts of the planet. The results from the evaluation of the questionnaires filled in by the students, regarding the purpose and the goals of the Seminar, were exceptional. The students pointed out almost unanimously that they enlightened their misunderstandings regarding Olympism, en- riched their knowledge, formed more favorable views on the Olympic Movement, acquired new ideas. Generally speaking, the Seminar con- tributed to the goals of the Olympic Movement by offering a broad variety of learning experiences. Nine students participated in the examinations of the joint Master programme of the IOA and the University of Loughborough, under the supervision of the following professors: prof. Dr. Ian Henry (GBR), Dr. Eleni Theodoraki (GBR), the IOA Dean, Dr. Kostas Georgiadis and one independent examiner, Dr. Udu Merkel (GER). The participating stu- dents succeeded in the examinations and received a recognized di- ploma of participation with 30 credits, which enables them to proceed, if they wish, with their postgraduate studies in Loughborough. The 5th Joint International Session for Educationists and Officials of Higher Institutes of Physical Education was conducted in the prem- ises of the I.O.A. from the 20th until the 27th of July 2001. The pro- fessors are educated on Olympic issues in order to contribute to the introduction of the course of Olympic Education in their Schools. Uni- versities in many countries have already founded centers for Olympic Studies. Sixty-six participants (40 men, 26 women) and 10 lecturers from 43 countries participated in the Session. The Session's special -8- subject was: "The Greek Olympic and cultural heritage and the Olym- pic Games of Athens 2004". The special subject was treated in their lectures by the following professors: Stavros Lambrinidis (Greece), Dr. Charles Rutherford (Great Britain), Dr. Eleana Yalouri (Greece), Dr. Lamartine Dacosta (Brazil), Dr. Kurt Weis (Germany), Dr. Christina Koulouris (Greece), Dr. Mimi Murray (USA), Dr. Sonaibou Gouda (Benin) and Dr. John Cheffers (USA). The Session begun with the presentation of the work accom- plished so far by the Organising Committee and the Greek Government on the preparation of the Athens Olympic Games. Athens is getting ready at a quick place to welcome its guests. It was made clear that the city will live up to the expectations of the Olympic Movement. The participants and the lecturers stressed that Athens and Ancient Olympia constitute cities of remembrance of the Olympic Games and sport and could therefore form a benchmark on a global scale. The Greek cultural heritage should, of course, be projected in a way com- prehensible by all. The participants also expressed their wish to wit- ness the universality of the modem Olympic Games in the creative combination of Olympic Ideal and real life, during the Athens' 2004 Olympic Games. They suggested that emphasis should be laid on the Olympic Torch Relay, because it will remind people of the values of hope, solidarity, common ownership and coexistence. The Olympic Games, through institutions such as Olympic Truce, which could be established in combination with the Olympic Torch Relay, could pro- mote once again their social and cultural value. The participants' innermost wish was the effort to restore the Olym- pic Ideal and highlight, during the Athens Games, the fundamental values of Physical Education, such as: effort, excellence, global par- ticipation, team spirit, art, cultivation of sporting spirit, equality, free- dom. They also suggested that the 4 virtues of wisdom, justice, happiness and moderation should be adopted and accompany the Games. The Olympic Games and their philosophy have certainly