INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

The offered themes about ancient Olympic Games in sports:
• Rules in the ancient Olympic Games;
• Olympic programs, origin of sports events, their
development - the first Olympic Games, sports events and
their development, sports equipment and its development,
Opening and Closing ceremonies;
• The most popular sports events in ancient Olympic Games
– the competitions the spectators attended and watched
most, characterization of sports events;
• Sports facilities and places in ancient Olympia – venues of
different events, their sizes and characterization, location
of buildings and stadiums in ancient Olympia;
• Winners of ancient Olympic Games and their awarding –
the first Olympic champion, the most popular Olympic
champions, many-times Olympic winners, awarding
ceremonies, prizes of the first game winners and later;
• The development of kinds of sport since the ancient
Olympic Games - comparison of sports in ancient Greece
and nowadays, changes in venues, equipment and
execution technique since ancient Olympic Games.
From the lists of themes we can see that basic knowledge about
the ancient Olympic Games should be given in sports and history
classes, however, in geography and literature we can find themes
about these questions. In history classes this theme could be taken a
deeper look at, in sports classes it should be told about athletes in
ancient Greece, about kinds of sport and their development, about the
most popular competition venues and about the Olympic Games. In
geography, geographical places in Greece, connected with the
Olympic Games, should be taken a look at, but in literature pupils can
learn about the ancient Greek myths, heroes and gods, as well as
reading Greek eposes they can learn about the life and occupations of
ancient Greeks.
If the teacher of every subject paid some attention to this theme,
the pupils would improve their knowledge about the ancient Olympic
Games.
In conclusion I can say that Olympic education should be started
with children, involving them in sport and educating their minds and
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