United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee

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United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
United States Olympic Committee logo.svg
Founded December 6, 1894
President Susanne Lyons
Association headquarters Colorado Springs
Official languages) English
Homepage www.teamusa.org
The USOC headquarters in Colorado Springs

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee ( USOPC for short ) is the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee of the United States . The USOPC, which is also known as Team USA , also coordinates the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency , as well as with many other international sports organizations. The USOPC was founded in 1894. Its position as the sole body responsible for all Olympic-related activities in the United States is established under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978set. The mission of the USOPC is to empower the Olympic movement and the sports that are part of the program of the Olympic Games , Paralympic Games , Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games . The USOPC is mainly financed through corporate sponsorship , private donations and the sale of licensed articles . In June 2019, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) was renamed the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee , making it the first NOK to have the Paralympic in its name.

story

The USOPC in its current form goes back to a small group of sports officials around James E. Sullivan , who founded the Amateur Athletic Union , which had the goal of an American team at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 bring to. The first president of the committee was William Milligan Sloane in 1894 . The committee was formally constituted at a meeting at the New York Athletic Club in November 1921 as the American Olympic Association . In 1940 the American Olympic Association changed its name to the United States of America Sports Federation until it was named the United States Olympic Association in 1945 . In 1961 major changes were made to the organizational structure and the name was changed again. From now on the organization was called the United States Olympic Committee .

As a result of the defeat at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal (only third place and then behind the GDR ), the American government and Congress intervened in the dispute between the Amateur Athletic Union and the NCAA University Sports Association . On November 8, 1978, the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 was passed by the United States Congress. In it, the USOC was established as the coordinating organization for the sports of the Olympic and Pan-American Games. It was also intended to promote sport in the United States in general . With the law, the AAU was disempowered and the professional associations were partly re-established and partly strengthened. They have been brought together under the umbrella of the new USOC. The law also protected the emblems of the IOC and USOC and also granted the USOC the rights to the terms “Olympic”, “Olympiad” and “Citius, Altius, Fortius”. Only organizations that used them before September 21, 1950 were allowed to continue to do so. On July 1, 1978, the USOC moved its headquarters from New York City to Colorado Springs with the new money . Since the USOC had previously legally protected the Olympic symbols in the USA than the International Olympic Committee (not until 1981), the USOC also receives a disproportionate share from the IOC's international sponsorship deals . This secures the USA an important place financially in Olympic sport.

Training facilities

The headquarters in Colorado Springs

The USOPC maintains several training locations:

  • The main location is in Colorado Springs , which is also where the USOC headquarters are located. There are training opportunities for summer and winter sports enthusiasts.
  • The ARCO Training Center in Chula Vista offers training opportunities for summer athletes. The largest facility there is a lake for canoe racing and rowing.
  • The US Olympic Center in Lake Placid offers training opportunities for winter sports enthusiasts.
  • There is a winter sports training center in Marquette , Michigan .
  • The Pettit National Ice Center in West Allis , Wisconsin offers training opportunities for ice sports.
  • The US Olympic Rowing Team Training Facility is located on Lake Mercer in West Windsor Township , New Jersey

Awards

The USOPC awards several awards:

  • USOC Athlete of the Year - Awards for the best male, female and disabled athlete and the best team from USOC member organizations
  • USOC Coach of the Year - Awards for the best national, development, and disability coach and volunteer coach
  • United States Olympic Hall of Fame - Hall of Fame for outstanding athletes and coaches from the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as those with special merit in the Olympic movement
  • US Olympic Spirit Award - Award for athletes with a special sporting spirit, commitment or results at the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Web links

Commons : United States Olympic Committee  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ US Olympic Committee changes name to US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In: Team USA. Accessed June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jack Hutslar: The Sports Act of the USA of 1978 and its effects, in: Leistungssport 9 (1979), 6, 525-530. Information about the book .
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger: The American sport between isolationism and internationalism. in: Leistungssport 18 (1988), pp. 43-50. Information about the book .