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.
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.
Thirteenth Olympic Congress (2009)
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has announced in 2005 that the next and thirteenth Olympic Congress is scheduled in 2009. The host city will be elected in 2006 in Turin, Italy. The candidate cities are: Athens (Greece), Busan (South Korea), Cairo (Egypt), Copenhagen (Denmark), Lausanne (Switzerland), Mexico City (Mexico), Riga (Latvia), Taipei (Republic of China) and Singapore.
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 |
