Special Sessions and Seminars 1997

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INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY

10th INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE
SEMINAR ON OLYMPIC STUDIES
10/5 – 20/6/2002

6th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS
OR DIRECTORS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC
ACADEMIES AND OFFICIALS OF NATIONAL
OLYMPIC COMMITTEES
30/6 – 7/7/2002

ANCIENT OLYMPIA

GREECE
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Published and edited by the International Olympic Academy
and the Hellenic Olympic Committee
52, Dimitrios Vikelas Avenue, 152 33, Halandri – Athens,
GREECE 2003
Scientific Supervisor: Dr. Kostantinos GEORGIADIS / I.O.A Dean

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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

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)
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Members Stelios AGELOUDIS
Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS
Ioannis VASSILIADIS
Pyrros DIMAS
Dimitris DIMITROPOULOS
Ilias DIAMANDIS
Theodoros THEODORIDIS
Pavlos KANELLAKIS
Emmanuel 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

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IOC COMMISSION FOR CULTURE
AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION

Chairman Mr. Zhenliang HE
IOC Member in China

Vice Chairman Mr. Nikos FILARETOS
IOC Member in Greece

Members Mr. Fernando F. Lima BELLO
IOC Member in Portugal

Mr. Valeriy BORZOV
IOC Member in the Ukraine

Mr. Ivan DIBOS
IOC Member in Peru

Dr. Nat INDRAPANA
IOC Member in Thailand

Major General Francis Were
NYANGWESO
IOC Member in Uganda

Mr. Lambis W. NIKOLAOU
IOC Member in Greece

General Mounir SABET
IOC Member in Egypt

Mr. Ching-Kuo WU
IOC Member in Chinese Taipei

Mr. Mohamed MZALI
IOC Member in Tunisia

Mr. Roque-Napoléon
MUŇOZ PEŇA
IOC Member in Dominican
Republic

Mr. Sam RAMSAMY
IOC Member in South Africa
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Ifs’ Representatives Mr. Klaus SCHORMANN

NOCs’ Representatives Mr. Henri SERANDOUR

Athletes’ representative Mrs. Charmain CROOKS

International Paralympic
Committee Ms. Carol MUSHETT

Individual Members Mr. Vittorio ADORNI

Mrs. Helen BROWNLEE

Mr. Conrado DURANTEZ

Dr. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS

Dr Marc MAES

Mrs. Alicia MASONI de
MOREA

Prof. Norbert MÜLLER

Mr. Robert PARIENTE

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PROLOGUE

Report on the IOA’s Special Sessions and Seminars 2002

10 years have been completed this year since the first Postgraduate
Seminar of the IOA on Olympic Studies. Discussions of the Ephoria
of the IOA for the enrichment of its activities began in 1991 and one
year later, the decision to proceed with the organization of the first
Seminar in 1993 was taken.
The Seminar’s aim is to give the opportunity to the participants to gain
knowledge, understand and experience Olympism. In addition, the
concept that the Olympic Movement is primarily an educational and
social movement can be easily understood through dialogue and
exchange of ideas. Moreover, the participation of young people from all
over the world cultivates the presuppositions of the creation of a
scientific network which offers them the possibility to be in contact and
exchange views even after the completion of the works of the Seminar.
The students are selected by the Profesors of the Universities they
attend. The IOA maintains the right of the final choice of 30-35
students every year. This procedure guarantees high scientific level for
the works of the Session.
It should be mentioned that during the first Postgraduate
International Seminar (International Seminar for Selected Graduate
Students of Physical Education and History), as it was named
originally, Professors Ingomar Weiler, Norbert Muller, John
Hargreaves (GBR), Lamartine Da Costa, Kostas Georgiadis (IOA
Dean) gave lectures. The following year (1994), the same Professors
were invited in order to supervise the works of the Seminar along with
Professors Wolfgang Decker (GER), Jan Jobling (AUS), Manfred
Messing (GER), Christofer Hill (GBR).
During these two years we have extensively discussed with the
Professors and the students the programme of studies of the
Postgraduate Seminar, as well as its structure and organization.
The current title ‘International Post-Graduate Seminar’ was
established at the third Seminar (1995). A specific study program was
gradually formed, based on experience, as well as on the evaluation of
the views of all the people involved in the Seminar. The works of the
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third Post-Graduate Seminar were supervised by professors: W.
Decker (GER), Ioannis Mouratidis (GRE), John MacAloon (USA),
Jan Jobling (AUS), Norbert Muller (GER), Manfred Messing (GER),
Robert Barney (CAN), Jim Parry (GBR), Leonidas Barzeliotis (GRE).
The lessons originally took place in one of the dorms of the IOA.
which was properly redecorated, as the Otto Szymiczek Lecture Hall
was being used for other activities. From 1995, after the construction
and inauguration of the new Conference Center, one of its two
auxiliary Halls is being used for the activities of the Seminar.
The proceedings of the Seminar, and particularly the summaries of
the 5th Post-Graduate Seminar students’ papers, were published for the
first time on the 1997 Report of the Special Sessions of the IOA. From
1998 and every year since, all the papers of the students who
participate in seminars are published in the annual report of the
Special Sessions.
From November 1999, a five-year cooperation with the University
of Loughborough started. The Master’s program of the above
mentioned University offers the students who participate in the
Seminar the optional possibility to take an examination which will
give them 30 credits.
In the 10th International Post-Graduate Seminar of Olympic Studies,
which was held from May 10th to June 20th, 35 people from 25
different countries participated, and, for the first time, students from
Aruba, Vietnam and Tunisia also took part in it. A total of 15 men and
20 women participated and, if we also include 15 professors from 9
countries, one coordinator and one IOC. participant who also attended
the works of the Seminar, the total number of the participants was 53.
The Seminar’s worldwide transmission through the Internet for 40
days was considered a novelty. It is encouraging that the diffusion of
Olympic Education becomes possible thanks to technological
achievements and thus the whole world becomes aware and is able to
take part in such an important effort from a distance.
The works of the Seminar on the topics: the History of ancient
Olympic Games, the History of contemporary Olympic Games, the
socio-political dimensions of the Olympic Movement, Philosophy and
Ethics were supervised by the professors: Ingomar Weiler (AUT),
Kevin Wamsley (CAN), Dr. Kostas Georgiadis (GRE), Dr. Norbert
Müller(GER), Otto Schantz (FRA), John Lucas (USA), Kamal Hamid
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