Final Report

NOC Legacy
Memories to be passed on to future generations
This programme, essential for NOCs’ ongoing historical record, was created for the
2001–2004 quadrennial plan, with the aim of helping the NOCs to preserve their
national Olympic and sporting heritage. The number of requests received shows that
it achieved this aim. An increasing number of NOCs with no suitable structure in place have
expressed a desire to set up educational facilities, preserve documents and objects forming
part of their heritage, carry out research on their heritage or publish books on the history
of sport in their country, of their NOC and of their participation in the Olympic Games.
The Olympic Museum and Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne have helped to
meet more specific requests from NOCs for training and professional assistance in the fields
of museology and research. Some NOCs have even been able to send one or two members
to Lausanne to receive specialised, individual training.
Other NOCs have used this programme to create databases and archiving systems, to
restore old films or photos, to purchase specialist equipment or display cases, to buy or
publish books or to establish exhibition halls and libraries open to the public. All of the
activities carried out by the NOCs will thus help to preserve the values of the
Olympic Movement and to bequeath to future generations the history of Olympism and
of the main developmental stages of sport in individual countries.
Individual NOC requests
Continent Requests accepted
Africa 17
America 23
Asia 8
Europe 20
Oceania 6
Total 74
World Programmes
Special Fields
2001–2004 expenditure
US$ 940,000
The Dutch NOC used this programme to finance part of
the renovation work on the tower of the Olympic Stadium
in which the Olympic flame burned when it passed
through Amsterdam on 23 June 2004 in the presence of
the Prince of Orange and Olympic swimming champion
Inge de Bruijn