N°15 DECEMBER 2011 www.olympic.org
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EDITORIAL The Olympic Movement, the IOC and the OSC look back on a very intensive year, filled with events, activities and new initiatives. Close to the end of 2011, we are looking forward to the celebration of the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck next January and the Summer Olympic Games in London in July. At the OSC level, the renovation work on its new site has started, and the Library and Historical Archives are starting to prepare the move for the transfer between the Olympic Museum building and the Villa du Centenaire. We are experiencing exciting times with no risk of getting bored! The Olympic Studies Centre team sends you our best wishes for 2012 and looks forward to welcoming you soon to our new premises.
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OSC NEWS
- As of April 2012, all the OSC services will be united in the - Following our previous communication sent in October, we are Villa du Centenaire, a building on the north-west side of The pleased to inform you that the programme of the 4th Olympic Museum, Quai d’Ouchy 1, CH -1001 Lausanne. International Sport Business Symposium on OlympicBecause of this move, the OSC will be closed to visitors from related research, which will be held in Innsbruck on 12 1 February until the end of March 2012. On-site consultation January 2012, can be downloaded here. Registrations can be of the Historical Archives or loans at the Library will not be made at research@innsbruck2012.com. possible during these two months. Nevertheless, the OSC will be able to receive your requests and will inform you - Registrations for the International Academy of Sports Science accordingly. The OSC reopens to visitors in April 2012, in its and Technology (AISTS) 2012 Open Modules are now open. new location. The two upcoming modules are Sport Event Management & Organisation (SEMOS) and Sustainable Sport & Event - For the benefit of all researchers trying to trace the history of (SSE), both taking place next February in Lausanne. marketing elements of the Olympic Movement, the OSC has + More info produced an “Olympic Movement Marketing History” bibliography. It highlights Olympic marketing history in terms of IOC ACTIVITIES content coverage in existing public documents (themes and years covered) and provides a qualitative selection and - Innsbruck 2012 coming soon! A New Year, a new Youth assessment per theme. This document is available via the OSC Olympic Games! Between 13 and 22 January, over 1,000 elite section of the IOC website in English only. young athletes from more than 65 countries will come together to compete at the first Winter Youth Olympic Games, held in - Did you know that judo entered the Olympic programme in Innsbruck, Austria. Building on the success of the first summer Tokyo in 1964; women’s football appeared at the Atlanta edition, Singapore 2010, this event will feature high-level Olympic Games in 1996; tennis was absent from the Games sporting competition in each of the seven sports on the Olympic programme for 13 editions, from 1928 to 1984; and women’s programme, combined with an interactive Culture and Education boxing events will be seen for the first time at the London Programme to enable the young athletes to learn new skills, Games in 2012? Check out the OSC’s pages to find out more experience different cultures and build friendships. To find out about the evolution of sports on the Summer Olympic more about the Youth Olympic Games and for the latest news Games programme. visit www.olympic.org/yog. - The library has digitised its patrimonial collections from the - In keeping with a tradition from ancient Greece, last October, the Olympic Games in London in 1908, 1948 and 2012. See all United Nations (UN) General Assembly called upon every the programmes, rules and other official publications in our country in the world to observe the Olympic Truce for the 2012 digital library. Games in London. You are invited to read the full text of the resolution and find out more about the Olympic Truce. - For the 2012 edition of the Postgraduate Research Grant programme, 34 candidates from the five continents - The report of the 2nd International Forum on Sport for Peace participating in both individual and collective projects submitted and Development, which was held with the UN last May, is now their project to the OSC. Among the very diverse range of available on our website. research subjects, most projects concern the athletes, the legacy of the OG (especially Rio 2016), the history and - We are pleased to make available to universities copies of two international relations of the Olympic Movement, sport as a recent IOC publications entitled XII Olympic Congress. tool for human development and Olympic education and Copenhagen 2009 - Follow-up and The Olympic Games – young people. The scholarship winners for 2012 will be Staging the Games. If you would like to receive a copy, please announced at the start of next year and the 2013 edition of the email us at bulletin.ceo@olympic.org Grant programme will be launched in April 2012. IMPRESSUM
N°15 DECEMBER 2011
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