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eluded in the official programme:<br />

Track and Field Athletics - Rowing - Basket Ball - Boxing - Canoeing<br />

- Cycling - Fencing - Football - Gymnastics - Weight-lifting - Handball<br />

- Hockey - Judo - Wrestling - Swimming and Diving - Modern<br />

Pentathlon - Equestrian sports - Shooting - Archery - Volley Ball -<br />

Water-Polo - Yachting<br />

and also a manifestation of Fine Arts (Architecture, Literature, Music,<br />

Painting, Sculpture, Sports Philately, Photography).<br />

I think it would be useful to make you familiar with a few Olympic<br />

expressions. There exists an error that you may hear every day. Only<br />

a few people know the difference between Olympiads and Olympic<br />

Games. The Olympic Games are the Sports festivals which are celebrated<br />

in honour of the Olympiad which means a period of four years,<br />

and always in the first year of the Olympiad. We are now preparing the<br />

Olympic Games for Tokyo in 1964 in honour of the XVIII Olympiad<br />

and in order to make it better understood this means that the athletes<br />

will participate in the Olympic Games of Tokyo next year, but not<br />

in the Olympiad of Tokyo. You may find another wrong expression<br />

of Olympic Summer Games. According to the rules Olympic Summer<br />

Games do not exist since there is only a reference to the Sport Festival<br />

which includes the Sports I have mentioned before. The Olympic competitions<br />

of winter sports are called Olympic Winter Games, and are<br />

actually Skiing, Ice Skating and Ice Hockey and "Luge". Another fact,<br />

almost unknown generally is that the Olympic Games are accorded to<br />

a city, but not to a country. The town of Innsbruck, for instance has<br />

been granted the honour of staging the IXth Olympic Winter Games<br />

of 1964 in accordance with the Olympic Rules, under the responsibility<br />

of the Austrian Olympic Committee.<br />

All events of the programme of the Olympic Games must be organised<br />

within 15 days, while the programme of the Olympic Winter<br />

Games must be organised within 10 days.<br />

The motto of the Olympic Games reads: Citius; Altius; Fortius<br />

(Further, Higher, Stronger) and their emblem is that of the five enlaced<br />

circles in the colours of blue, yellow, black, green and red, which symbolises<br />

the five continents, or another version of the colours from which<br />

all existing flags can be composed.<br />

The competitions of the Olympic Games are to be contested between<br />

individual athletes according to the Olympic rules, but an Olympic<br />

victor is turned in almost all countries of the world into a national hero<br />

and Olympic victories are the main aim of physical training in many<br />

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