Olympic education and the institutional foundation of sports for all at the international olympic committee
Parte de Olympism and Olympic Education . páginas 56 - 69
Resumo
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set up 32 commissions composed of IOC members and representatives of external institutions including, amongst others, National Olympic Committees (NOCs), International Sport Federations (IFs), the United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations (UN), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), broadcasting companies, legal ofces, and research units attached to universities. The Sport and Active Society Commission is one of these 32 commissions. One of its central objectives is to initiate, promote, and fund sports competitions and sports events on the national and international level to disseminate the educational value of sport for diverse target groups across all ages. In this regard, the synergies with the IOC’s Olympic Education Commission are obvious. Both commissions and their initiatives are vital for the IOC to stress that the concept of Olympism encompasses an education through sport for athletes at the top level and those who engage in leisure time sport and recreational activities. In doing this, the IOC has addressed the continuously developing sports scene, which is coined by diferent, but often interlinked, motivations to take part in a sports activity with, or even without, a competitive nature. This was already a central aim of Baron Pierre de Coubertin when he started to develop his idea to revive the modern Olympic Movement.
