The Olympic athlete as a role model: an old and new educational idea.

Autor/in	Wassong, Stephan
Titel	The Olympic athlete as a role model: an old and new educational idea. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der olympische Athlet als Vorbild: eine alte und neue pädagogische Idee.
Quelle	Aus: Forsyth, Janice (Hrsg.); O'Bonsawin, Christine (Hrsg.); Heine, Michael (Hrsg.): Intersections and intersectionalities in Olympic and Paralympic Studies. Twelfth International Symposium for Olympic Research. London (Ont.) (2014) S. 107-113 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Bildungsauftrag; Identität; Geschichte (Histor); Doping; Fairness; Leistungssport; Olympische Idee; Sportgeschichte; Sportsoziologie; Karriere; Professionalisierung; Olympische Spiele; Sportler; Coubertin, Pierre de
Abstract	According to Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic athlete has to take over the responsibility to act as role model to disseminate the educational value of sport. Firstly, it will be analysed that Coubertin had a clear vision of the athlete as a role model. This included that the Olympic athlete must be an amateur athlete who had finished their vocational training or university education. Secondly, this paper discussed how this concept was challenged since the inception of the Olympic Movement, and had almost been disintegrated in the last decades of the 20th Century. Issues such as the professionalization, commercialization and politicization of the Olympic Games are identified as reasons for this development. Thirdly, this paper explains how the IOC became aware of this problem and, therefore, commenced a new initiative at the Olympic Congress in Copenhagen in 2009. At this time, a modern version of Coubertin's vision of the athlete as a role model was presented and discussed. This article aims to describe this new profile of the new role model and his/her responsibilities for the modern world of sport. By doing this it should become obvious that the new vision of the Olympic athlete as a role model is a vehicle for the IOC to safeguard the integrity of sport, stress the importance of a dual career in sport and educate ambassadors for what has become known as Olympic Agenda 2020, which was introduced at the 126th IOC Session in Sochi in 2014. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2018/2