INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS 10 - 24 JUNE 2009 PROCEEDINGS ANCIENT OLYMPIA PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 1 1/11/2010 12:15:57 μμ Commemorative seal of the Session Published by the International Olympic Academy and the International Olympic Committee 2010 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 Photographs IOA Photographic archives ISBN: 978-960-9454-02-5 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 2 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY FORTY-NINTH INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS SPECIAL SUBJECT: THE OLYMPIC GAMES AS A CELEBRATION: EVALUATION OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF BEIJING AND THE COURSE TOWARDS THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF VANCOUVER ANCIENT OLYMPIA PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 3 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 4 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ EPHORIA OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY (2009) President Isidoros KOUVELOS Vice-President Christos CHATZIATHANASSIOU Members Lambis NIKOLAOU (IOC Vice-President – ex officio member) Spyros CAPRALOS (HOC President - ex officio member) Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS (HOC Secretary General - ex officio member) Athanassios KANELLOPOULOS Michalis FISSENTZIDIS Panagiotis KONDOS Leonidas VAROUXIS Honorary President Juan Antonio SAMARANCH Honorary Vice-President Nikolaos YALOURIS Honorary Dean Konstantinos GEORGIADIS Director Dionyssis GANGAS Advisor on education issues Stephen MILLER 5 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 5 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ HELLENIC OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (2009) President Spyros CAPRALOS 1st Vice-President Pavlos KANELLAKIS 2nd Vice-President Athanassios VASILEIADIS Secretary General Emmanouel KATSIADAKIS Treasurer Antonios NIKOLOPOULOS Deputy Secretary General Dimitrios CHATZIMIHALIS Deputy Treasurer Michail FISSENTZIDIS IOC Member - ex officio member Lambis NIKOLAOU Members Stylianos AGGELOUDIS Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS Ioannis VASSILIADIS Georgios YEROLYMPOS Dimitrios DIATHESSOPOULOS Spyridon ZANNIAS Athanassios KANELLOPOULOS Ioannis KARRAS Vassileios KATSORAS Emmanouel KOLYMPADIS Panagiotis KONTOS Isidoros KOUVELOS Minos KYRIAKOU Georgios LENOS Sophia MPEKATOROU Vasileios POLYMEROS Stylianos PROSALIKAS Ioannis SGOUROS Vassileios SEVASTIS Evangelos SOUFLERIS Petros SYNADINOS Thomas TIMAMOPOULOS Pericles TRIKALIOTIS Antonios TSAMESSIDIS Christos CHATZIATHANASSIOU 6 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 6 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ IOC COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION (2009) Chairman Zhenliang HE (CHN) Members Haya AL HUSSEIN (UAE) Beatrice ALLEN (GAM) Fernando F. Lima BELLO (POR) Valeriy BORZOV (UKR) Helen BROWNLEE (AUS) Danilo CARRERA DROUET (ECU) Sir Philip CRAVEN (GBR) Iván DIBÓS (PER) Conrado DURÁNTEZ CORRAL (ESP) Hicham EL GUERROUJ (MAR) Manuel ESTIARTE (ESP) Timothy Tsun Ting FOK (CHN) Kostas GEORGIADIS (GRE) Nat INDRAPANA (THA) Kipchoge KEINO (KEN) Minos X. KYRIAKOU (GRE) Karl LENNARTZ (GER) Vladimir LISIN (RUS) Marc MAES (BEL) Alicia MASONI de MOREA (ARG) Samih MOUDALLAL (SYR) Norbert MÜLLER (GER) Mohamed MZALI (TUN) Lambis W. NIKOLAOU (GRE) Francis W. NYANGWESO (UGA) Fabio PIGOZZI (ITA) Enrico PRANDI (ITA) Sam RAMSAMY (RSA) Thomas P. ROSANDICH (USA) Mounir SABET (EGY) Melitón SÁNCHEZ RIVAS (PAN) Klaus SCHORMANN (GER) Antun VRDOLJAK (CRO) Ching-Kuo WU (TPE) 7 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 7 1/11/2010 12:16:04 μμ PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 8 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ These Games were thus a unique opportunity for China - one fifth of mankind - and for the world to experience the Olympic values live, to be the privileged witnesses of excellence, friendship and respect conveyed by sport, as well as the harmony, understanding and peace it generates. Undoubtedly, Vancouver and Canada will live and celebrate these same values next February. Quotation from the message of the IOC President, Dr Jacques ROGGE, at the Opening Ceremony of the 49th International Session for Young Participants of the International Olympic Academy Hill of the Pnyx, 11th June 2009 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 9 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 10 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ CONTENTS Foreword by the Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy, Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS ............................................................17 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS HILL OF THE PNYX, 11 JUNE 2009 Prize Awarding by the International Olympic Academy .................................. 23 Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy, Isidoros KOUVELOS .......................................................................................... 30 Message by the President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Spyros CAPRALOS ........................................................................................... 33 Message by the President of the International Olympic Committee, Dr Jacques ROGGE ......................................................................................... 35 Address by the Deputy Minister for Culture and Sports, Ioannis IOANNIDIS............................................................................................ 38 Message by the Mayor of Athens, Nikitas KAKLAMANIS ......................................................................................... 40 Address on behalf of the lecturers of the Session, by Conrado DURÁNTEZ (ESP) ......................................................................... 43 11 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 11 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS Opening of the works of the Session by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos PAPOULIAS .........................................................................................45 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS, ANCIENT OLYMPIA, 13 JUNE 2009 Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy, Isidoros KOUVELOS .......................................................................................... 49 Address by the Prefect of Elis, Haralambos KAFYRAS ..................................................................................... 53 Address by the Mayor of Ancient Olympia, Georgios AIDONIS ........................................................................................... 57 WORKS OF THE 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS ANCIENT OLYMPIA Lectures The Master’s degree Programme on Olympic Studies “Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Organisation and Management of Olympic Events” - The International Olympic Academy Isidoros KOUVELOS (GRE) ...............................................................................63 The Master’s degree Programme on Olympic Studies “Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Organisation and Management of Olympic Events” Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS (GRE) ..................................................67 Pierre de Coubertin, the humanist Conrado DURÁNTEZ (ESP) ..............................................................................71 Did the Olympics Change China, or Did China Change the Olympics? Prof. Susan BROWNELL (USA) .........................................................................80 12 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 12 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ CONTENTS How have the Olympics changed the perception of China in the West? Proving the weak power of soft power Prof. Wolfram MANZENREITER (AUT) ............................................................... 99 Olympic Education Programme in China and its post-Olympic implementation Dr Hai REN (CHN) ....................................................................................... 115 The Panhellenic Games as a festival Prof. Panos VALAVANIS (GRE) .......................................................................127 Beijing Olympic Games: Mass media and the role of the internet Prof. Emilio FERNANDEZ-PEÑA (ESP) ............................................................. 137 Beijing 2008: Impacts on Chinese society and culture Prof. Jinxia DONG (CHN) ............................................................................. 147 The Olympic Education Programme of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Don BLACK (CAN) ........................................................................................158 Short presentations by the participants My Olympic experience in sports administration Maria CARUSO (AUS) ....................................................................................171 Sport, Olympism and its threats: An Australian perspective James EDWARDS (AUS) .................................................................................175 Sport festival - “Small Olympic Games” Hanna KURANAVA (BLR) ...............................................................................179 The legacy of the Beijing Olympic Games Hiu Wai Sherry TSAI (HKG) ......................................................................... 182 Aspects of the Polish Sports and Olympic Culture Dr Marcin SIEWIERSKI and Wioleta ZAWADKA (POL) ........................................187 My Olympic experience Olivia Aya NAKITANDA (UGA) ....................................................................... 189 13 PRAKTIKA 49th SYNODOU_ENG.indd 13 1/11/2010 12:16:05 μμ 49th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS “Sport for peace and development” Programme of the NOC of Haiti Enite JOSEPH (HAI) .....................................................................................