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for the Olympic Movement. This is one of the main tasks of the Olympic
functionaries and there are many ways to achieve this. Holding an
Olympic Day annually as the peak of sports events is only one of the
means. In Austria, for example, it has been shown to be successful so
as to make young sports journalists acquainted with the Olympic Movement
by means of lectures and courses and by organising competitions
for the best journalistic works in the line of sport. The publication
of the usual bulletins is not very effective for the most part because the
daily newspapers show little interest in special publications in the field
of sport.
An attempt must therefore be made in a clever manner to obtain
entry into the columns of the newspapers by means of well written
articles. The discussion about the amateur problem which starts up
ever and ever again is not at all bad for this purpose.
Here are the rules issued in 1962 in the booklet of the I.O.C. Part
IV, Rule 26, which is as follows:
REGLES GENERALES DES JEUX OLYMPIQUES
Definition de l'amateur
Un amateur est celui qui s'adonne et s'est toujours adonné à la
pratique du sport par goût et par diversion sans en tirer aucun profit
matériel quel qu'il soit.
Il ne peut pas se prévaloir de cette qualification:
a) s'il n'a pas une situation de base de nature à assurer son existence
présente et future;
c) s'il n'observe pas les règles de la Fédération Internationale du
sport qu'il pratique, et les dispositions du règlement d'application du
présent article.
Which, translated into English would read:
GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES
Definition of an amateur
An amateur is one who participates and always has participated in
sport as an avocation without material gain of any kind. He does
not qualify:
a) If he has not a basic occupation designed to insure his present
and future livelihood;
b) If he receives or has received remuneration for participation
in sport;
c) If he does not comply with the Rules of the International Fe
deration concerned and the official interpretations of this Rule, number 26.
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