download - IOA
download - IOA
download - IOA
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
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 />
45