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| sokoluda | Date: Tuesday, 14.01.2014, 18:56 | Message # 1 |
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| Symbols are used by the International Olympic Committee to promote the Olympic Games
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| Dana | Date: Saturday, 18.01.2014, 18:50 | Message # 2 |
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| The Olympic Oath.
The Olympic Oath is a solemn promise made by one athlete—as a representative of each of the participating Olympic competitors; and by one judge—as a representative of each officiating Olympic referee or other official, at the opening ceremonies of each Olympic Games.
The athlete, from the team of the organizing country, holds a corner of the Olympic Flag while reciting the oath:
In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by
the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of
sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams.
The judge, also from the host nation, likewise holds a corner of the flag but takes a slightly different oath:
In the name of all the judges and officials, I promise that we shall officiate in these Olympic Games with complete
impartiality, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship.
Since the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, an additional oath is taken by a coach from the host country:
In the name of all the coaches and other members of the athletes' entourage, I promise that we shall commit ourselves to ensuring that the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play is fully adhered to and upheld in accordance with the fundamental principles of Olympism.
- A call for an oath was announced as early as 1906 by International Olympic Committee president and
founder Pierre de Coubertin.
- The Olympic Oath was first taken at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The first judge's oath was taken at the 1972 Winter
Olympics.
- In 1961, "swear" was replaced by "promise" and "the honour of our countries" by "the honour of our teams" in an obvious effort to eliminate nationalism at the Olympic Games.The part concerning doping was added at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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| Emma | Date: Sunday, 19.01.2014, 22:21 | Message # 3 |
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| Olympic medal is a mark of distinction for personal or team sports achievements in competitions at the Olympic Games , is also used by the International Olympic Committee to promote the idea of the Olympic Movement around the world.
There are three classes of medal: gold, awarded to the winner; silver, awarded to the runner-up; and bronze, awarded to the third-place competitor.
The olive wreath was the prize for the winner at the Ancient Olympic Games. It was an olive branch, of the wild-olive tree that grew at Olympia, intertwined to form a circle or a horse-shoe.
When the modern Olympic Games began in 1896 medals started to be given to successful competitors. However, gold medals were not awarded at the inaugural Olympics in 1896 in Athens, Greece. The winners were instead given a silver medal and an olive branch, while runners-up received a laurel branch and a copper or bronze medal. In 1900 most winners received cups or trophies instead of medals.
The custom of the sequence of gold, silver, and bronze for the first three places dates from the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
Medals are not the only awards given to competitors; every athlete placed first to eighth receives an Olympic diploma.
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| swagger_jagger | Date: Sunday, 19.01.2014, 23:12 | Message # 4 |
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| The Olympic Motto
The Olympic motto is made up of three Latin words:
Citius - Altius - Fortius. These words mean Faster - Higher - Stronger.
The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics enthusiast.
Coubertin said "These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible." The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.
A more informal but well known motto, also introduced by Coubertin, is "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!" Coubertin got this motto from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 London Games.
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| Valer_o_sha | Date: Monday, 20.01.2014, 21:00 | Message # 5 |
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| The Olympic Hymn, officially known as the Olympic Anthem, is played when the Olympic Flag is raised. It is a musical piece composed by Spyridon Samaras with words written from a poem of the Greek poet and writer Kostis Palamas.
The anthem was performed for the first time for the ceremony of opening of the 1896 Athens Olympic Games but wasn't declared the official hymn by the IOC until 1957.
In the following years, every hosting nation commissioned the composition of a specific Olympic hymn for their own edition of the Games until the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Several other composers have contributed Olympic music during the years, including Henry Mancini, Francis Lai, Marvin Hamlisch, Mikis Theodorakis, etc.
English Lyrics of the Olympic AnthemImmortal spirit of antiquity,
Father of the true, beautiful and good,
Descend, appear, shed over us thy light
Upon this ground and under this sky
Which has first witnessed thy unperishable fame.
Give life and animation to those noble games!
Throw wreaths of fadeless flowers to the victors
In the race and in strife!
Create in our breasts, hearts of steel!
Shine in a roseate hue and form a vast temple.отредактировано
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| Mars | Date: Monday, 20.01.2014, 22:10 | Message # 6 |
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| The Olympic flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek
god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was
kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced
at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern
Olympic Games ever since. In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch
relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the various
designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by
Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Relay race comes to the end at the central stadium of capital of games, in the end of ceremony of
their opening. Last participant of relay race lights fire in a bowl established
at stadium where it continues to burn until the day of the closing ceremony and celebration, when it is finally put out.
Over the years, it has become a tradition to let famous athletes, former athletes or athletes with significant achievements and milestones be the last runner in the Olympic torch relay and have the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron. The first well-known athlete to light the cauldron in the stadium was ninefold Olympic Champion Paavo Nurmi, who excited the home crowd in Helsinki in 1952.
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