INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY
ANCIENT OLYMPIA
The sacred place promoting the ideals of peace, freedom, equality and mutual respect
OLYMPISM
Olympism is a way of life based on respect for human dignity and fundamental universal ethical principles, on the joy of effort and participation, on the educational role of good example, a way of life based on mutual understanding
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN
“The future of civilasation reacts at this moment neither on political nor on economical bases. It depends solely on the direction which will be given to education”.
OLYMPIC SPIRIT
The Olympic spirit is linked to the values and ideals of Olympism. THe spiritual dimention of the games was stressed from the beginning by Pierre de Coubertin himself and the Olympic values, which constitute the foundations of sports and Olympic education, were based on it.
NELSON MANDELA
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in the language they understand. Sport can create hope were once there was only dispair. It is more powerful than government in breaking down racial barriers. It loughs in the face of all kinds of disciamination”.
OLYMPIC EDUCATION
Olympic education is a priceless investment in the construction of a better and more powerful world. It is the most useful and valueable endeavour of the Olympic Movement withing the framework of the Olympic ideal.
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH
“We are here in an ideal setting in this unique place of Olympia where sport began its most wonderful and glorious history.”
THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
Olympism is a philosophy of life, where blending sport and culture with art and education aims to combine in a balanced whole the human qualities of body, will and mind. Olympism is a way of life based on respect for human dignity and fundamental universal ethical principles, on the joy of effort and participation, on the educational role of good example, a way of life based on mutual understanding.
“Olympism tends to bring together as in a beam of light all those moral principles which promote human perfection”
Pierre de COUBERTIN
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