We are delighted to announce that the fourth issue of ‘Diagoras: The Academic Journal for Olympic Studies’ was published on 29.10.2020.
From 21 to 24 October, the Brazilian Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CBPC), in partnership with Trevisan Business School, is organising the “Forum of Olympic Studies 2020 - Perspectives of Olympic Studies in a Pandemic Time”.
An intrusion into the thought of Baron Pierre de Coubertin and through it, into the Olympic idea.
The International Pierre de Coubertin Committee is proud to announce that its Board member, George HIRTHLER, has been awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal by the International Olympic Committee Executive Board at their meeting on 15 July 2020 for the outstanding services to the Olympic Movement.
They set up a summary of Pierre de Coubertin’s life and activities based on the book “Pierre de Coubertin the Visionary - His Life, His Work, His Key Texts” …
The first Olympic Day was celebrated on 23 June 1948 by nine National Olympic Committees: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The Indian Olympic Association and its newly founded Committee on Olympic Education has organized an interesting virtual conference on theories and concepts of Olympic Education.
On 9 May 2020 the 'Latin American Center for Coubertinian Studies' was launched.
“Reinvention of Sport and Olympic Games Post-Pandemics: a Return to Pierre de Coubertin”
The objectives of the IOC to celebrate the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo 2020 had to be readjusted and the Games have been postponed for one year. On behalf of the CIPC members, President Stephan Wassong sent an encouraging message to the IOC President, Dr. Thomas Bach, reassuring the IOC of our continued support…