INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

Olympism is a conception the origins of which can be found in
ancient Greece. It contains fundamental aims for people education and
tries to concentrate all moral values necessary to perfect people.
The aim of the research – to find out the attitude of sports
teachers toward the sports class at school and what themes in different
subjects are connected with the Olympic movement.
The tasks of the research:
1. To find out sports teacher opinion about the forms of sports
theoretical knowledge acquiring at school.
2. To make a list of advisable themes connected with the
Olympic movement to be learned in different subjects.
We are a new country that only on May 4, 1991 regained its
independence, but already on September 18, 1991 IOC re-established
us in its family. The status of Latvia was re-established in the Olympic
movement from which we had been excluded for more than 50 years.
Latvia incorporated in the Olympic Movement, but in order to
popularise the philosophy of Olympism among children, young people
and every member of society, on March 21, 1989 the Latvian Olympic
Academy was founded, that helped not only to popularise the Olympic
movement and its ideas in Latvia, but also all over the world. LOA as
a free and independent organization in the 15 years period of its
existence popularises the philosophy of Olympism in society.
Everybody interested in it, who accepts and supports the Olympic
lifestyle, has a wish to educate, develop, improve one’s intellect,
accepts physical activities and enjoys them, can be involved in its
activities. LOA directs youth towards education, facilitates the
following of the theses expressed by Pierre de Coubertin that the main
thing is not a victory, but to be active, to accept Olympic Principles it
and live in accordance with it, to feel that Olympism is a bridge for
friendship, that unites people and allow them to understand each other,
like a language. So people should understand that the Olympic
Movement is not competition but development and self-perfection.
In Latvia Olympism in its short period of formation and
development has faced the same problems as any other country. The
only difference is that we, as a new country, had to change from a
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