Olympic oath

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The Olympic oath is the promise made by an active athlete from the host country and a referee at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to observe the idea of fair play / fairness. The oath was first sworn at the Olympic Summer Games in Antwerp in 1920 by the Belgian fencer Victor Boin .

Versions

Until 1964, the version of the oath was:

"We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games as honorable fighters, that we will respect the rules of the Games and that we will endeavor to show chivalrous sentiments for the honor of our fatherland and the glory of sport."

The subsequent modification took away the character of an oath and became more of a promise:

"On behalf of all participants, I promise that we will prove ourselves to be loyal competitors at the Olympic Games, will respect their rules and participate in a chivalrous spirit for the glory of the sport and the honor of our teams."

From the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , the referees were "sworn in" with a similar vow . Since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , the Olympic oath also contains an anti-doping clause, which was passed by the IOC General Assembly in December 1999 .

Up until the 2016 Summer Olympics, the oath read:

“On behalf of all athletes, I promise that we will take part in the Olympic Games, respecting and following the rules in force, and in doing so undertaking a sport free of doping and drugs, in the true spirit of sportiness, for the glory of the sport and the honor of ours Team."

On September 17, 2017, the IOC announced that at future opening ceremonies an oath would be taken by one athlete, one referee and one coach. This reads:

“On behalf of all athletes / judges / trainers, I promise that we will take part in the Olympic Games and respect the applicable rules and comply with them in the spirit of fair play. We all commit to sport free from doping and fraud. We do this for the glory of the sport, for the honor of our teams and for the respect of the fundamental principles of the Olympic Movement. "

Speaker

Olympic oath
Games athlete Referee Trainer
1920 Summer Olympics Victor Boin - -
Olympic Winter Games 1924 Camille Mandrillon - -
1924 Summer Olympics Géo André - -
Olympic Winter Games 1928 Hans Eidenbenz - -
1928 Summer Olympics Harry Dénis - -
1932 Winter Olympics Jack Shea - -
1932 Summer Olympics George Calnan - -
Olympic Winter Games 1936 Willy Bogner - -
1936 Summer Olympics Rudolf Ismayr - -
Olympic Winter Games 1948 Bibi Torriani - -
1948 Summer Olympics Don Finlay - -
1952 Winter Olympics Torbjørn Falkanger - -
1952 Summer Olympics Heikki Savolainen - -
1956 Winter Olympics Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo - -
1956 Summer Olympics John Landy
Henri Saint Cyr ( Equestrian Games )
- -
1960 Winter Olympics Carol Hot - -
1960 Summer Olympics Adolfo Consolini - -
1964 Winter Olympics Paul Aste - -
1964 Summer Olympics Takashi Ono - -
1968 Winter Olympics Léo Lacroix - -
1968 Summer Olympics Pablo Garrido - -
1972 Winter Olympics Keiichi Suzuki Fumio Asaki -
1972 Summer Olympics Heidi Schüller Heinz Pollay -
1976 Winter Olympics Werner Delle Karth Willi Köstinger -
1976 Summer Olympics Pierre St.-Jean Maurice Fauget -
1980 Winter Olympics Eric Heiden Richard McDermott -
1980 Summer Olympics Nikolai Andrianov Alexander Medved -
1984 Winter Olympics Bojan Križaj Dragan Perovic -
1984 Summer Olympics Edwin Moses Sharon Weber -
1988 Winter Olympics Pierre Harvey Suzanna Morrow-Francis -
1988 Summer Olympics Hooray Jae Lee Hak-Rae -
1992 Winter Olympics Surya Bonaly Pierre Bornat -
1992 Summer Olympics Luis Doreste Eugeni Asensio -
1994 Winter Olympics Vegard Ulvang Kari Karing -
1996 Summer Olympics Teresa Edwards Hobie Billingsley -
1998 Winter Olympics Kenji Ogiwara Junko Hiramatsu -
2000 Summer Olympics Rechelle Hawkes Peter Kerr -
2002 Winter Olympics Jim Shea Allen Church -
2004 Summer Olympics Zoi Dimoshaki Lazaros Voreadis -
2006 Winter Olympics Giorgio Rocca Fabio Bianchetti -
2008 Summer Olympics Zhang Yining Huang Liping -
2010 Winter Olympics Hayley Wickenheiser Michel Verrault -
Youth Olympic Summer Games 2010 Caroline Rosanna Chew Pei Jia Syed Abdul Kadir David Lim Fong Jock
Youth Olympic Winter Games 2012 Christina Ager Peter Zenz Angelika Neuner
2012 Summer Olympics Sarah Stevenson Mik Basi Eric Farrell
2014 Winter Olympics Ruslan Sakharov Vyacheslav Vedenin Anastasija Popkova
Youth Olympic Summer Games 2014 Fan Zhendong Zhou Qiurui Li Rongxiang
Youth Olympic Winter Games 2016 Maia Ramsfjell Thomas Pettersen Sandra Alisa Lyngstand
2016 Summer Olympics Robert Scheidt Martinho Nobre Adriana Santos
Olympic Winter Games 2018 Mo Tae-bum Kim Woo-sik Park Ki-ho

Referee oath

The so-called referee oath is also used at other sporting events, such as world championships. The formula for this is:

“On my honor, I declare that as a referee I will only be guided by the spirit of sporting fairness and the dignity of sport. I undertake to judge the performance shown conscientiously regardless of the person or the nation. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Athletes to take the lead as oaths at future Olympic Games openings are unified - Olympic News. In: olympic.org. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  2. a b c Innsbruck 2012 - Official Report of the IOC (PDF, English). (PDF) In: olympic.org. IOC, p. 73 , accessed January 2, 2016 .