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are administered throughout Queensland by the Queensland Olympic 2000 Task<br />
Force (17) in association with the Queensland Olympic Council, the Department of<br />
Education and the Office of Sport. The Pierre de Coubertin Awards are designed<br />
to recognize students who demonstrate attributes that are consistent with the fundamental<br />
aims of the Olympic Movement through participation in a variety of<br />
sporting and community activities. The Award aims to emphasise participation and<br />
sporting behaviour; the students who consistently displays an attitude of being a<br />
"good sport". Schools are invited to select one student in years 10, 11 or 12. (18)<br />
Almost 100 awards were made throughout the State in this inaugural year. It<br />
was most significant though that 37 of the recipients of the Pierre de Coubertin<br />
Awards who did not reside in the Brisbane region (19) could receive their framedcertificates<br />
in their "home towns" in an "Olympic Environment, with Olympic flags<br />
and displays, and by an Olympic official or former great Olympic athlete, such as<br />
Marlene Mathews, Tracey Belbin, Bill Roycroft, Glynnis Nunn, Tracey Wickham.<br />
3. The Olympic Education Kits<br />
These curriculum based education kits (a copy of which will be presented to<br />
the International Olympic Academy library following this presentation), have been<br />
developed by the Australian Olympic Committee to assist young Australians to understand<br />
the values and spirit of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic<br />
Games (20) . With the assistance of CocaCola, the kits were distributed to every primary<br />
and secondary school in Australia in mid-1995. Again, it was fortuitous that<br />
schoolchildren could have a real "Olympic" experience so soon after having access<br />
to such a resource in their school library.<br />
4. Olympic Competitors' Pins<br />
In September 1987, the President of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, instigated<br />
the awarding of a pin to every athlete who had competed at an Olympic<br />
Games. (21) The Australian Olympic Committee, with the help of the State Olympic<br />
Councils, has endeavoured to locate all Olympians and present the pin in person<br />
at an appropriate ceremonial occasion. Again because of the distance, this has<br />
been difficult in Queensland, but during the Olympic Journey, 28 pins were presented<br />
to Australian Olympians at ceremonies in various towns and cities throughout<br />
Queensland.<br />
5. The Olympians Club<br />
For more than a decade, the Olympians Club in Australia has been organized<br />
on a State basis (22) but there have been discussions recently to form a national<br />
Olympians Club of Australia with the State clubs acting as the primary delivery<br />
agents. The Olympic Journey helped to revive the spirit and facilitated many of the<br />
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