Table Of ContentINTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 
 
 
 
19th INTERNATIONAL sEMINAR 
ON OLYMPIC sTuDIEs fOR POsTgRADuATE sTuDENTs
 
1 - 30 sEPTEMBER 2012 
 
 
PROCEEDINgs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ANCIENT OLYMPIA 
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Published by the International Olympic Academy
and the International Olympic Committee
2014
International Olympic Academy
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Roula Vathi
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IsBN: 978-960-9454-23-0
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INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 
 
 
 
19th INTERNATIONAL sEMINAR 
ON OLYMPIC sTuDIEs fOR POsTgRADuATE sTuDENTs
 
 
 
sPECIAL suBJECT:
 
THE LEGACY OF OLYMPIC GAMES:
THE INFRASTRUCTURE, ART, QUALITY OF LIFE 
AND ECONOMIC PARAMETERS
 
ANCIENT OLYMPIA 
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EPHORIA
OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY
(2012)
President  Isidoros KOuVELOs (HOC Member) 
Vice-President  Petros sYNADINOs (HOC Member)
Members  C  haralambos NIKOLAOu  
(IOC Member – ex officio member)
   spyridon I. CAPRALOs  
(HOC President – ex officio member)
  E  mmanuel KATsIADAKIs  
(HOC Secretary General – ex officio member)
   Athanassios KANELLOPOuLOs  
(HOC Member)
  Michail fIssETzIDIs (HOC Member)
  Ino fotini MENEgAKI
  Leonidas VAROuxIs
Honorary Members   Τ.A. ganda sITHOLE (Director of Interna-
tional Cooperation and Development, IOC)
   Pere MIRÓ (Director of Olympic Solidarity, IOC)
Honorary President  Jacques ROggE
Honorary Dean  Konstantinos gEORgIADIs
Director  Dionyssis gANgAs
Advisor On Education Issues  stephen MILLER
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HELLENIC OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (2012) 
 
President  spyridon I. CAPRALOs 
1st Vice-President  Pavlos KANELLAKIs 
2nd Vice-President  Athanassios VAssILIADIs
Secretary General  Emmanuel KATsIADAKIs 
Treasurer  Antonios NIKOLOPOuLOs 
Deputy Treasurer  Michail fYssETzIDIs 
Deputy Secretary General  Dimitrios CHATzIMIHALIs 
IOC Member   Charalambos NIKOLAOu 
Members  stylianos AggELOuDIs 
  georgios VAssILAKOPOuLOs 
  Ioannis VAssILIADIs 
  georgios YEROLYMPOs 
  georgios gLAROs 
  Dimitrios DIATHEssOPOuLOs 
  spyridon zANNIAs 
  Athanassios KANELLOPOuLOs 
  Ioannis KARRAs 
  Ilias KARYDIs 
  Vassilios KATsORAs 
  Emmanuel KOLYMBADIs 
  Isidoros KOuVELOs 
  Konstantinos KOuRKOuTAs 
  georgios LENOs 
  sophia BEKATOROu 
  Vasilios POLYMEROs 
  stylianos PROsALIKAs 
  Ioannis sgOuROs 
  Vassilios sEVAsTIs 
  Petros sYNADINOs 
  Thomas TIMAMOPOuLOs 
  Pericles TRIKALIOTIs 
  Antonios TsAMEssIDIs 
  georgios fOuNTAs 
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IOC COMMISSION 
FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION (2012) 
 
Chairman  Charalambos V. ΝIKOLAOu (gRE) 
Members  Vittorio ADORNI (ITA) 
  Haya AL HussEIN (uAE) 
  Beatrice ALLEN (gAM) 
  franco AsCANI (ITA) 
  Valeriy BORzOV (uKR) 
  Helen BROWNLEE (Aus) 
  Danilo CARERA DROuET (ECu) 
  Philip CRAVEN, MBE (gBR) 
  Iván DIBÓs (PER) 
  Conrado DuRÁNTEz (EsP) 
  Jean DuRRY (fRA) 
  Hicham EL guERROuJ (MAR) 
  Manuel EsTIARTE (EsP) 
  Timothy Tsun Ting fOK (CHN) 
  Konstantinos gEORgIADIs (gRE) 
  Nat IuNDRAPANA (THA) 
  Ryong-gil KAND (KOR) 
  Kipchoge KEINO (KEN) 
  Isidoros KOuVELOs (gRE) 
  Karl LENNARTz (gER) 
  Vladimir LIsIN (Rus) 
  Elizabeth LONgWORTH (NzL) 
  Admire MAsENDA (zIM) 
  Alicia MAsONI de MOREA (ARg) 
  samih MOuDALLAL (sYR) 
  Norbert MÜLLER (gER) 
  Enrico PRANDI (ITA) 
  Tubby REDDY (RsA) 
  Thomas P. ROsANDICH (usA) 
  Mounir sABET (EgY) 
  Melitόn sÁNCHEz RIVAs (PAN) 
  Klaus sCHORMANN (gER) 
  Ching-Kuo Wu (TPE) 
Honorary Member  zhenliang HE (CHN) 
Director in charge  Thomas sITHOLE (zIM) 
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CONTENTs
CONTENTS 
 
Foreword 
by the Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy,
Prof. Konstantinos gEORgIADIs ........................................................................15
STUDENTS’ PAPERS 
Olympic cultural diversity and tradition in the light of Pierre de Coubertin’s 
principle “All games, all nations”
Bartosz PRABuCKI (POL) ...................................................................................21
Agonism in the west colonial area 
Alberto ARAgóN PéREz (EsP) ............................................................................33
3000 metres steeplechase: Personal experience 
Elisa gABRIELLI (ITA), Christian DORIA, Tiziana PIETRANgELO and 
giorgio fANò-ILLIC ...........................................................................................56
The role of Olympism in society 
salhat ABBAsOVA (AzE) ................ ...................................................................72
Qatar and sports, a strategy for survival 
Aude EVEN (fRA) ................................... .........................................................81
Sports events and media strategy
Hamad Abdulaziz ALTHANI (QAT) ..................................................................101
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19th INTERNATIONAL sEMINAR ON OLYMPIC sTuDIEs fOR POsTgRADuATE sTuDENTs
Case study of ACER sponsoring 2012 Olympics in London
shih-Hsuan LEE (TPE) ...................................................................................106
The legacy of Olympic Games
Buyani MPHETsOLANg (BOT) ..........................................................................121
Circuses not bread? Revisiting “Olympic Industry Resistance” 
in Canada (1990-2010)
guilherme REIs NOTHEN (BRA) ......................................................................127
“Free” sports: Organizational evolution from participatory activities 
to Olympic sports 
Mikhail BATuEV (gBR) ...................................................................................136
The approach to technical complexity estimation of free routine composition 
in synchronized swimming
Tatyana RuDKOVsKA (uKR).............................................................................148
Olympism, the lost legacy in Thailand
Dolhathai THONgTANuNAM (THA) .. ................................................................158
The Olympic education and the educational environment
Alexis MAuRIVARD (fRA) . ...............................................................................165
100 years of the Olympic Cultural Programmes –  an interdisciplinary comparison  
of Athletics and Fine Arts as competing partners within the Olympic contest
Katharina gALuBA (gER) .......................................... ....................................178
Educational computer programmes – ways to make the teaching 
of Olympic items more dynamic and more efficient 
gabriel Codruţ MORARIu (ROu) ............................... .....................................190
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