Part 2 - LA84 Foundation
Part 2 - LA84 Foundation
Part 2 - LA84 Foundation
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The Olympiad is mankind's magnificent<br />
festival not only of sports, but of arts,<br />
culture, science and technology. Countries<br />
hosting the Olympics mobilize all national<br />
resources including their scientific and<br />
technological achievements and cultural<br />
and artistic accomplishments in preparing<br />
for the Games. Olympic facilities, publicity<br />
materials, and games management, planning<br />
and execution all reflect the technical<br />
capability, plastic sensibility and artistic<br />
appreciation of the host country, therefore<br />
its cultural, artistic and technical standards<br />
are on display for all to see and subject to<br />
evaluation by the rest of the world.<br />
The host country's culture and arts are<br />
vividly showcased by the Olympic arts<br />
festival. The tradition of the Olympiad as a<br />
festival combining sports and culture and<br />
arts originated in ancient Greece. The<br />
ancient Greek Olympics held as a solemn<br />
ritual in honor of Zeus was an epitome of<br />
Hellenic culture. Philosophers expounded<br />
sportsmanship in the same arena of ancient<br />
Greek Olympics in which youths representing<br />
the Greek city-states competed<br />
for excellence in athletics. Poets recited<br />
verses dedicated to Olympic victors,<br />
painters painted their portraits and<br />
sculptors immortalized them in marble.<br />
Records and works of art produced in the<br />
culture-arts festival of the ancient Greek<br />
Olympiads survive and testify to the Olympic<br />
spirit and the modern men, impressed<br />
by the spirit, revived the Olympiad after<br />
1,000 years' discontinuation. The first<br />
culture-arts festival of modern times was<br />
held in 1912 at the fifth Stockholm Olympics.<br />
As in the sports events, participants<br />
in this culture and arts festival competed<br />
for excellence and medals. The culture<br />
and arts festival became a non-competitive<br />
event beginning with the 15th Olympic<br />
Games in Helsinki in 1952. The Olympic<br />
culture-arts festival has ever since been<br />
conducted as a valuable occasion for all<br />
nations to present their traditional culture<br />
and arts and to help chart their future<br />
courses. In recent years, the festival has<br />
often included academic exchanges as<br />
well.
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