INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

The Georgian NOA having a 14-year-old history realizes its
activity in the structure of the by means of individual and joint
undertakings.
The students-sportsmen under the leadership of eminent specialists
and teachers deepen their knowledge, make speeches and discuss
them; the same works will be presented to IOA for participation in the
annual International sessions.
Regional branches of GNOC, which are virtually left to the mercy
of fate, need more attention. The social protection of veteran
Olympians, which has already begun must be continued.
Unfortunately, all sports structures today are oriented at high
sporting achievements and pay less attention to the mass sports.
Without mass involvement of women, groups of different ages and
disabled people in sports we can’t claim any considerable success in
sports. We are going to give more attention to the university sport.
We want to include “Olympism” within the secondary educational
life as a school subject.
Implementation of teaching “Olympism” in Georgia under the
following circumstances.
1. The history of the Georgian sport movement.
2. Since 1952 Georgian sport movement experiences a kind of
Olympism outlined in successful performance of Georgian
representatives in Olympic sports.
3. For the present time we have already prepared three textbooks
for teaching “Olympism” as a subject at the secondary schools
of Georgia. The books are entitled: ”Olympism”, “Olympic
Georgia”, and “Olympic Encyclopaedia”.
4. In our opinion teaching “Olympism” requires further
integration. In this process the Olympic Committee as well as
the NOA should take leading role.
We think that ideas of Olympism have a great future, but for their
development it is necessary to work much. Because many people still
don’t know anything about this movement. Moreover, this will be an
irreparable mistake that may harm our generation.
Georgian sport has a great potential and in case it has petty support
we are able to even double and triple our sport achievements.
In the 2000 year we won 36 medals - 16 medals in the Olympic
sports, but in 2001 we won 58 medals.
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