INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

• Olympic Truce
• Cultural activities on the occasion of the Olympic games.
The programme about the Olympic games placed at first the
Games of the antiquity in time and space. It went on to explain the
origins, organization and the conditions on which the games ceased to
be organized.
The revival of the Olympic Games in the end of the 19 th century
constituted the second asset of that programme. Emphasis was placed
on Pierre de Coubertin’s leading role since the Sports Congress in
1892 in Sorbonne up to the constitution of the International Olympic
Committee in 1894 and the organization of the first Olympic games of
modern times in 1896 in Athens.
Referring to Olympism and the Olympic movement, the
presentation dealt with the founding principles, which govern them
and with the principal components of the latter.
The shows relevant with Olympic Truce and the cultural
manifestations, on the occasion of the Olympic games, were organized
the day following the adoption by the General Assembly of the United
Nations of the decision on the Olympic Truce, with regard to the
XXVIII Olympic Games.
Taking into account - on the one hand - the role played by Greece
in order to prepare and adopt this decision and on the other hand the
cultural Olympiads which Greece was in the middle of organizing, we
sought and obtained the participation of the Ambassador of
Democratic Republic of Congo in these two television programmes.
The origin, organization, and objectives pursued by the
establishment of Olympic truce in antiquity and the conditions on
which it is installed and implemented nowadays were explained to the
spectators.
The explanations on the cultural manifestations which accompany
the Olympic Games should close that series of TV programmes.
After reminding what happened at the games of the antiquity, we
dwelt, once more, on the work done by Pierre de Coubertin so as to
introduce those activities in the organization of the games of modern
times. In order to support that, we pointed out that the arts and literary
contests which were organized, from 1912 to 1948, during the
Olympic Games, and the cultural programme that the International
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