INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

Georgia is amongst those 30 countries, which have won the most
golden and silver medals in the history of the Olympic Games.
Five persons in Georgia were awarded the Olympic Order.
The Olympic Games in Atlanta was a historic event for the
athletes of Georgia. Georgia was represented as an independent
country for the first time during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In
Atlanta Georgian Olympians won only two bronze awards, which
were quite a faded result in comparison to the impressive traditions of
Georgian Olympians.
God granted that our Olympic motto should be “Better than in
Atlanta”.
The Olympic Games in Sydney were different from the former in
many ways. They broke the record by the number of participant
countries and women. There was an Olympic debut of several kinds of
Sports.
We have been positively impressed by the Georgian team at the
Olympic Games in Sydney.
The names of the new and promising sportsmen rank side by side
with the experienced ones. This is prospective youth, which will fight
for golden and silver medals in Athens.
Georgian team consisted of 36 entrants in the Sydney Olympics.
They can be considered equal to sporting heroism.
Each sixth Georgian sportsman won an Olympic medal. Therefore
to the total amount of the Georgian medals, 6 bronze were added.
The achievements by the Georgian athletes in Sydney are three
times better than in the previous Olympic Games.
Six medals, which Georgian sportsmen won in Australia will give
a new impetus to the further development of Georgian sport and
Olympic movement. Olympic medals for Georgia are as necessary as
breathing for life.
What we must do first of all, is to keep experienced and promising
sportsmen and sportswomen in Georgia by creating normal social and
training conditions.
In Georgia we have the Georgian National Olympic Academy
(GNOA), the Georgian National Olympic Committee (GNOC), the
Academy of Physical Education and Sport of Georgia, the Olympic
Museum.
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