Olympic Congress
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The Olympic Congress is a vast gathering of the Olympic Movement, which happens on an irregular basis, but generally every ten years or so during the last few decades. The Congress is organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Olympic Congresses bring together representatives of all the parties that make up the Olympic Movement, namely the IOC, the National Olympic Committees, the International Sports Federations, the Olympic Games Organising Committees, the athletes, coaches, judges and the media, as well as other participants and observers. The role of the Congress is consultative.
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[edit] Thirteenth Olympic Congress (2009) - Copenhagen
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has announced in 2005 that the next and thirteenth Olympic Congress is scheduled in 2009. The host city was elected on February 8, 2006 in Turin, Italy. Copenhagen, Denmark was chosen as the host of the XIIIth Olympic Congress defeating Cairo, Egypt by 59 votes to 40. With this result, still no Olympic Congress has ever taken place outside of Europe.
The nine original candidate cities were: Athens (Greece), Busan (South Korea), Cairo (Egypt), Copenhagen (Denmark), Lausanne (Switzerland), Mexico City (Mexico), Riga (Latvia), Taipei (Taiwan) and Singapore. But Mexico City (Mexico) dropped out of the running in January 2006, followed by Lausanne a few days before the vote.
[edit] The Vote
- First round of vote - Athens eliminated with one vote
- Second round of vote - Riga eliminated with two votes
- Third round of vote - Singapore eliminated with six votes
- Fourth round of vote - Taipei eliminated with seven votes
- Fifth round of vote - Pusan eliminated with twenty-four votes
- Sixth round of vote - Copenhagen wins over Cairo 59 - 40
The XIIIth Olympic Congress will also host the 121st IOC Session where the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics will be announced.
[edit] List of Olympic Congresses
| Year | City | Themes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ist | 1894 | Paris | Re-establishment of the Olympic Games |
| IInd | 1897 | Le Havre | Sports hygiene and pedagogy |
| IIIrd | 1905 | Brussels | Sport and physical education |
| IVth | 1906 | Paris | Art, literature and sport |
| Vth | 1913 | Lausanne | Sports psychology and physiology |
| VIth | 1914 | Paris | Olympic regulations |
| VIIth | 1921 | Lausanne | Olympic regulations |
| VIIIth | 1925 | Prague | Sports pedagogy – Olympic regulations |
| IXth | 1930 | Berlin | Olympic regulations |
| Xth | 1973 | Varna | Sport for a world of peace – The Olympic Movement and its future |
| XIth | 1981 | Baden-Baden | United by and for sport The future of the Olympic Games – International cooperation – The future Olympic Movement |
| XIIth | 1994 | Paris | Centennial Olympic Congress, Congress of Unity The Olympic Movement’s contribution to modern society – The contemporary athlete – Sport in its social context – Sport and the mass media |
| XIIIth | 2009 | Copenhagen | The role of the Olympic Movement in society The Athletes — The Olympic Games — The Structure of the Olympic Movement — Olympism and Youth — The Digital Revolution |
