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Foundation Speech of the Olympic Games donated to the IOC
Prof. Wassong delivers a lecture on its historical significance during IOC ceremony.
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Japan Olympic Museum: Keynote lectures by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong
For the occasion of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Japan Olympic Museum (JOM) has opened a special exhibition on the life and works of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The museum itself is new, with its inauguration taking place in September 2019. The co-academic supervision of the Coubertin exhibition fell under the...
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2020’s Commission Week of the IOC
During the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games, held from 9th to 22nd January, the IOC scheduled this year’s meetings of its 21 Commissions. Thus, this meant that the Olympic Capital was crowded with young athletes, coaches, sport officials, volunteers, visitors and commission members. As in the previous years, Prof. Dr....
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Dark Sides of Sport (2019)
Dark Sides of Sport is the title of a new publication by the Institute of Sports History and the Olympic Studies Centre. The editors are Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong and Dr. Jörg Krieger, who has taken up his new position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University (Denmark) in April 2019....
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IOC's Olympic Education Commission: Renewed appointment of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong
Appointments to the commissions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are decided annually by the IOC President. For 2019, Dr. Bach once again nominated prof. Wassong for the Olympic Education Commission. An important basis for this decision constitutes that of the commission project Database on Olympic Studies, which...
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3rd On-Site Module Week of M.A. Olympic Studies Intake 6
In the week from 17.03.2019 to 23.03.2019 the 6th Intake of the Olympic Master had its 3rd on-site module week on the topic of 'Media and Commercialisation of the Olympic Games'. The week took place at the Olympic Studies Centre Cologne’s (OSC) partner institution the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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March 2019: International Pierre de Coubertin Committee
On 9th and 10th of March, the annual general assembly and the board meeting of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC), officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee, took place in Lausanne. Therein, Mr. Wassong reported on the activities and projects that he had initiated and already realized in...
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Meeting with IOC-President Thomas Bach
On March 8, 2019, a meeting between Mr. Bach and Stephan Wassong took place in Lausanne. In a one-hour talk, Mr. Wassong first informed the President of the IOC about the research and teaching priorities of the Center for Olympic Studies at the German Sport University. Mr. Bach showed great interest in the ongoing research...
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IOC`s Olympic Education Commission: Final Report
The annual meeting of all of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) commissions took place from 11.01. - 20.01.2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. At the meeting of the Olympic Education Commission, Prof. Wassong together with Prof. Zintz (Université Catholique de Louvain) presented the final report on the development of the...
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Hinkelien Schreuder - The Role of Athletes in Olympic Governance
Hinkelien Schreuder, a former gold and silver Olympic medalist in swimming (2008 and 2012) and current President of the Dutch National Olympic Committee’s (NOC) Athletes’ Commission (AC), was invited to the GSU to hold a presentation on the role of athletes within Olympic governance on 11th January, 2019. The highly engaging...
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