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IOC launches in Beijing Athlete Career Programme
During the Beijing Olympic Games, the IOC is launching a new programme for athletes. It will provide guidance and tools to help them to manage training, competition and the challenges and opportunities of day-to-day life. The programme has been designed with the advice of elite athletes, coaches and experts from around the world.
It focuses on three fields:
· Education
· Life skills
· Career management
Education: about the “second challenge”
The Education part of the programme stresses the importance combining sport with studies in order to be prepared for the “second challenge”, meaning the transition after one’s sports career to another kind of activity, a change of focus from sports performance to a more standard job. “Successful job integration unquestionably starts with education,” says IOC member Sergey Bubka, Chairman of the Athletes’ Commission, the future participants of the project.
Life Skills: “overall success in life”
The life-skill training includes information, practical tools and guides on subjects such as health, nutrition, finance, media training, time management, public speaking and goal setting. ”Athletes should be able to develop their athletic skills, and at the same time, develop their social and professional skills,” says Bubka.
Career management: or how to find or develop a job
The third element is concentrating on career management training, in collaboration with Adecco, the IOC and various National Olympic Committees. It should allow the athletes to acquire support and advice, including information on drafting a curriculum vitae, job hunting and job interview techniques. This programme may also help with job placement and career development.
Questionnaire
The launch during the Beijing Games allows the IOC to make athletes aware of this programme. It also wants to encourage them to participate. Olympians and experienced athletes - on elite level - are asked to fill in the attached questionnaire. The analysis of all the answers will allow the IOC to assess the main expectations of the athletes for this project. “The Athletes’ Programme depends very much on your involvement, so get active, share your needs with us: give us your best!“ concludes IOC President Jacques Rogge.
Athletes programme - questionnaire
In Beijing, The Olympic Museum is everywhere!
In Beijing, The Olympic Museum is everywhere!
No fewer than seven operations in Beijing and an eighth in Hong Kong where the equestrian events are being held. The Olympic Museum is everywhere in the Chinese capital!
Olympex
At the Beijing Exhibition Centre, it is present at Olympex - The Olympic Expo Beijing 2008 on the theme Olympic Art & Symbols. Some 3,000m2 of medals, torches, and delegation and ceremony outfits, not forgetting the winning works of the 2008 IOC Art & Sport Contest.
Olympic treasures
Part of the IOC Olympic Treasure Exhibition, after a year spent travelling through the big cities of the country, is back in Beijing until 30 October at the China Millennium Monument in the large One World, One Dream exhibition (nearly 8,000m2) organised by BOCOG.
Collecting stories
Operations are also taking place at the IOC Corner in the Olympic Village on one 300m2 stand, perfectly located in front of the main restaurant and which the Museum has decorated. The Museum is there to collect stories from the Games As at each edition of the Games, the Museum has also decorated the Olympic Club, where Marketing receives its sponsors.
Lausanne, Olympic Capital
During August, it is also present in spaces in the Swissôtel in Beijing with the operation Lausanne, the Olympic Capital and Lake Geneva Region greet Beijing 2008.
Hong Kong Jockey Club
Finally, 2,000km south, in Hong Kong, where the equestrian events are being staged, The Olympic Museum and the Hong Kong Jockey Club have set up the 2008 Olympic Equestrian Exhibition, a retrospective on the theme of equestrian sports, on show until the end of September.
Over 2,000 items
Estimate of the number of items from the collections sent to China: over 2,000!
Learn more about The MuseumFencing: Duellists take centre stage
The first fencing medals of the 2008 Olympic Games were won in the men’s épée when Matteo Tagliariol from Italy beat French Fabrice Jeannet 15-9 in the final to take gold. It was the first gold medal for Italy in Men’ Individual Epee since 1960, the Rome Games. Tagliariol was overwhelmed: “I have lost my voice, I am so excited right now and I have no way of expresing myself.”
Successful defence
Fencing is one of only four sports to have featured at every modern Olympic Games, and was the first to allow professionals to take part. The men’s épée, the traditional sword of duels, was not among the disciplines at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 but was introduced four years later in Paris, when Cuba’s Ramón Fonst Segundono took gold at the age of just 16. He successfully defended his title at the next Games in St Louis, and is still the only man to have done so in the individual épée. He also won the foil for good measure.
Nedo Nadi
However, Fonst’s versatility could not compare with Italy’s Nedo Nadi, the only man to have won with each of the three main weapons at the same Games. In 1912, when only 18, he won the foil. Then, after being decorated by his government for bravery in World War I, he won an unprecedented and unequalled five gold medals in Antwerp in 1920: the individual foil and sabre, plus the team foil, épée and sabre. His brother, Aldo, also won gold in each of the three team events.
Mighty Magyars
No account of Olympic fencing would be complete without mention of Hungary’s astonishing run of gold medal winners in the men’s individual sabre from 1908 all the way through to 1964, missing out only in 1920 when they did not compete. Meanwhile, the fencing prowess of Italy’s men has continued to this day. In Athens four years ago, Aldo Montano won the sabre, and became the third generation of his family to win an Olympic medal in the competition.
No account of Olympic fencing would be complete without mention of Hungary’s astonishing run of gold medal winners in the men’s individual sabre from 1908 all the way through to 1964, missing out only in 1920 when they did not compete. Meanwhile, the fencing prowess of Italy’s men has continued to this day. In Athens four years ago, Aldo Montano won the sabre, and became the third generation of his family to win an Olympic medal in the competition.
Ilona Elek
On the women’s side, Ilona Elek was already 29 when she competed in the Berlin Games, her first. In the foil she defeated the winners of the two previous Games, Helene Mayer of Germany and Ellen Preis of Austria, to take the gold medal. When the Games resumed after the war in London in 1948, Elek became one of only two champions from 1936 to successfully defend her title. Many years later, Elek’s fellow Hungarian Timea Nagy, who began fencing at the age of 14 to impress a boyfriend, also managed to defend her Olympic title by winning the épée in 2000 and 2004.
Learn more on Fencing Discover the Multimedia GalleryDecision in the case of Ms Ekaterini Thanou's participation in the 2008 Beijing Games
The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met today in Beijing to reach a decision in the case of Ms Ekaterini Thanou’s participation in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Upon receiving the recommendations of the IOC’s Disciplinary Commission, the EB declared Ms Thanou ineligible to participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games under Rule 23.2.1 of the Olympic Charter. In addition, the EB further decided to apply Rule 45.2.2.
Rule 23.2.1 provides for temporary ineligibility as a disciplinary measure or sanction. Rule 45.2.2 allows the IOC to refuse entry to any person at its own discretion. In the case of Ms Thanou its application is intended to firmly signal the IOC’s moral consideration that this case is serious, and that Ms Thanou’s actions in 2004 and subsequently have brought the Olympic Movement into disrepute.
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IOC Disciplinary Commission recommendations regarding Ms Ekaterina Thanou
IOC Executive Board decision regarding Ms Ekaterina Thanou
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- Olympic Charter – Rule 23.2.1. “with regard to individual competitors and teams: temporaray or permanent ineligibility or exclusion from the Olympic Games, disqualification or exclusion, the medals and diplomas obtained in relation to the relvant infringement of the Olympic Charter shall be returned to the IOC. In addition, at the discretion of the IOC Executive Board, a competitor or a team may lose the benefit of any ranking obtained in relation to other events at the Olympic Games at which he or it was disqualified or excluded in such case the medals and diplomas won by him or it shall be returned to the IOC (Executive Board).
- Olympic Charter – Rule 45.2.2. “Only NOCs recognised by the IOC may enter competitors in the Olympic Games. Any entry is subject to acceptance by the IOC, which may at its discretion, at any time, refuse any entry, without indication of grounds. Nobody is entitled to any right of any kind to participate in the Olympic Games.”
For further information, please contact in Beijing:
IOC media relations office: +8610 666 27 298
Mobile numbers:
Emmanuelle Moreau - Media Relations Manager - +86 158 1155 1830
Sandrine Tonge - Media Relations Coordinator - +86 135 5217 5720
The 2008 Beijing Games also focus on French
When Chinese President Hu Jintao declared the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing open, these simple words - long-awaited by 20 per cent of the world’s population and some 10,500 athletes from the five continents – also appeared in French on the giant screens inside the Olympic Stadium.
Initiative of the International French-speaking Organisation
This presence of the language of Olympic Games reviver Pierre de Coubertin at the first Games organised in the People’s Republic of China marked the kick-off of a Francophone event which took place in the Chinese capital the day after the Games Opening Ceremony. At the initiative of the Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Abdou Diouf, this meeting brought together several heads of state and of government, sports ministers, Olympic family members – both French-speaking and international – around a message to promote the French language and the values that the French-speaking family and the sports movement share.
French on the same level as Chinese and English
French, an official language of the Olympic Movement, along with English, is of fundamental importance for the Olympic Games. That is why the OIF signed a convention with the Beijing Games Organising Committee (BOCOG) proposing a series of measures to accompany BOCOG’s efforts to encourage the use of French. These include translating the Games web site and the official information platform, INFO2008; signage in French at the Olympic venues; translating the main publications by BOCOG, including the Spectator Guide; recruiting 40 translators and French-speaking journalists for the period of the Games for written and oral announcements and the ceremonies; not forgetting providing French training for several hundreds of Chinese; and finally, organising French-speaking cultural events.
Beijing under the magnifying glass of the Grand Témoin
Like in Athens in 2004 and Turin in 2006, a Grand Témoin [Great Witness] – in this instance former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin – will visit the sports venues, Olympic enclosures and other public places and attend the competitions and official events in Beijing. To date, like its predecessors, Beijing in 2008 is taking the same approach to being loyal to the French culture and language and taking it beyond the promotion and development of cultural diversity, values shared by Olympism and the OIF. Expect to go further and stronger in Vancouver in 2010, London in 2012 and Sochi in 2014….
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