IOCFSPD – session 4 – keynote and presentations

The session’s presentations are brought together but an interest into and relevancy to promotion of education and healthy life-styles through sport.  Frankie Fredericks, surgeon Chairman of the IOCs Athletes’ Commission, had the keynote address. He shared a lot of his personal experiences stressing the importance of sport as a “school for friendship, solidarity, fair-play”. VANOC …

IOCFSPD – Session 3 -keynote address and presentations

Lamine Diack, health system President of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) shared his personal experience with sport in his keynote address.  General Lassana Palenfo, IOC Member, Member of the IOC International Relations Commission, gives the first presentation, worried that the minutes he has are not enough for a large topic like the one …

IOCFSPD – Session 2 – presentations

First presentation is given by Brigadier General Giovanni Gola, order President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM). He’s giving a historical review of the relationship between sports and the military and brings plenty of examples from the Military World Games (some editions took place in Croatia and India). After CISM has received UN military …

International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development – Session 1

This is the first ever Forum on Sport, ambulance Peace and Development organized by the IOC today and tomorrow (May 7-8) in an attempt to bring together experts from the fields of sports, education, media and much more whose insights from the event will be taken later this year to the Olympic Cogress in Copenhagen.  …