The IOA President, Mr Isidoros KOUVELOS, and the IOA Director, Mr Dionyssis GANGAS, returned from Singapore thrilled by the success that the International Olympic Academy booth had during the 1st Youth Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee President, Dr. J. Rogge, who visited the booth twice, expressed his full satisfaction for the International Olympic Academy’s overall work during the last year.  He was happy with the content of the program and with the methodology that was chosen for the best educational approach of the young people who participated to the Games.  The representatives of the Winter Youth Olympic Games, and the representatives of the next Summer Youth Olympic Games, asked from the IOA to participate with the same booth to their respective Olympic Villages.

Apart from the IOC President and the rest of the IOC Members, i.e. SAR la Princesse Haya AL HUSSEIN, Mr Zhenliang HE, Mrs Irena SZEWINSKA, Mr Kipchoge KEINO, Mr Chiharu IGAYA, Mrs Nawal EL MOUTAWAKEL, Mr Hicham EL GUERROUJ, Mr Frank FREDERICKS, many important personalities visited the IOA booth. Among them, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, Mr Wilfried LEMKE, and the Prime Minister of Singapore. In total, it is estimated that more than 2.000 athletes and team officials visited the IOA booth that was set up in the central square of the Olympic Village.

In general, all the visitors of the booth thought that the high technology that was tested in Singapore, through five big screens equipped with the system “touch and draw”, together with the easy and entertaining educational approach of the young people regarding the facts of the Olympic Movement and its values, is one more step from the IOA towards the propagation of Olympism mainly to the youth, an action that is the main responsibility of the International Institution.

The program of “Discovering the Olympic Movement and its Values” will soon go to the HOC premises in Ancient Olympia, where the IOA is hosted, for permanent installation.  There, all the visitors and the students will have the opportunity to enrich their knowledge about the Olympic Movement through this interactive electronic encyclopedia in a pleasant and technologically perfect way.

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