Diversity of Creation: Post-Olympism、Presentation Outline for The First Olympic Economics and City Development and Cooperation Forum
Diversity of Creation: Post-Olympism
International World Youth Games Committee, Moscow, Russia
Summary
POST-OLYMPISM is a fusion of innovations and realities concerning to the contradictions in modern Olympic Movement that are frequently not appropriate to ideals and principles professed by an Olympic Charter and other basic documents of an Olympic Unity.
In view of the above, we actually suggest the idea of POST-OLYMPISM. By that we mean the phenomenon we now deal with and witness - its contents, problems, interpretations, research methods. This phenomenon could hardly be within the concept of the modern Olympism – it’s something different. Its name is POST-OLYMPISM.
The first attempts of researching Olympism in our domestic sport historiography should be referred to the 60s - 70s of the past Century. The works by N. N. Bugrov, A. V. Vershinin, G. S. Demeter, O. A. Romanov, P. S. Stepovoi, V. V. Stolbov, Y. A. Tallalaev, A. A. Frenkin dealt mostly with historical, philosophical and organizational issues of the Olympic Games and Olympic Movement.
The first report on the Olympism itself was made by V. V. Stolbov at the 1st All-Union Sociological Problems of Physical Education and Sports Conference – ‘Social Matter of Modern Olympism’ in 1966 in Leningrad.
80s and 90s brought much more interest in various problems, aspects and interpretations of Olympism, e. g. works by B. A. Balayan, A. N. Bugreev, A. G. Egorova, R. N. Kiseleva, A. A. Kozlovski, O. A. Milshteyn, A. B. Ratner, V. S. Rodichenko, M. Y. Saraf, V. I. Stoliarov, A. B. Sunik, Y. M. Chernetski, Y. N. Yuriev and others.
At the same time, indeed, there was always much interest in Olympism in foreign literature – from the 19th Century (works of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of Olympism) to 21st Century. Its peaks are clearly seen before each Olympic Games. For example, in 1966 Karl Diem Institute of German Sports High School in Cologne worked out a complete bibliography of 226 Coubertin’s key works from 1886 to 1937. Most of them were published in German and English within the following 5 – 6 years.
In 1968 the IOC released the complete works of the founder of the modern Olympism in three volumes, in French, compiled and edited by N. Mueller, an outstanding German Olympic historian.
A considerable number of such works appeared in the eve of the Centennial Olympic Congress in Paris ‘1994. We suppose that the two volumes compilation of the Congress should be considered as a serious contribution in the field of Olympism.
However, the top of these and many other historical, philosophical, sociological and pedagogical works on Olympism is still a unique volume of Coubertin’s select works in English, edited by the above-mentioned N. Müller and published by the IOC before the Olympic Games in Sydney ‘2000.
Post-Olympism is a fusion of facts, processes, concepts and views reflecting the essence of changes that took place in the Olympic Games and Olympic Movement in the 70s – 90s of the 20th Century. And this problem was never touched upon in all above works, comments and innumerable publications. These changes began before Samaranch’s Olympic Revolution and were conditioned not only by commercialization of international sports and its consequences, but also by such inevitable factors as globalization, mediacracy, political, economical, social, national, demographic, religious changes in the worlds structure, etc.
In view of the above, we actually suggest the idea of Post-Olympism. By that we mean the phenomenon we now deal with and witness - its contents, problems, interpretations, research methods. This phenomenon could hardly be within the concept of the modern Olympism – it’s something different and its name is Post-Olympism.
So, our task is to consider the dialectics of the Ancient Greek Olympism (which corresponds to Coubertin’s formula of Hellenism and Enlightenment), Neo-Olympism (i. e. the end of the 19th Century – the beginning of the 20th Century), Modern Olympism (the beginning of the 20th Century – the 70s of the 20th Century) and Post-Olympism (the end of the 20th Century – the beginning of the 21st Century). Along with the contents of these stages, we should reflect each of them in adequate definitions.
Dr. Oleg A. Milshteyn
Presentation Outline for The First Olympic Economics and City Development and Cooperation Forum
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I. Utah’s Five Point Olympics Capitalization Plan
A. Capital Attraction
B. Research
C. Position the Utah! Brand
D. International Marketing Program
E. Media Development/Public Relations
II. Capital Investment
A. Public Infrastructure
1. Transportation
2. Athletic Facilities
3. University Housing
4. Convention Center
5. Telecommunications
B. Private Investment
1. Hotels and Resorts
2. Resorts and Recreation Facilities
C. Olympic Legacy = $100 million
1. Sports Foundation Endowment = $72 million
2. Legacy Plaza = $10.2 million
3. Donations & USOC Credits = $18.5 million
III. State and Local Government Benefits
A. Revenue Contribution Government Operating Budgets
B. Employment Gains = 35,000 Job Years
C. SLOC Programs for Local Governments
1. Venues
2. Torch Relay
3. Plaza Celebrations
IV. Tourism Research
A. Measure Net Change in Awareness, Image, Destination Attitudes
B. Focus Groups Confirm Destination Attitudes and Length of Afterglow
C. Verify Branding Objectives
D. Economic Contribution Data
E. Domestic Survey Identifies New Domestic Audience Attributed to Game
V. Branding Examples
VI. Regional Marketing Co-op Program with Four States (AZ, ID, NV, UT)
A. Walk-in Visitor Center During Games
B. European Tour Operator Trade Program
C. 1,000-day Post Games Trade Missions
VII. Media Development
A. Public Relations Effort
B. Facilitate Journalist Interest/Focus; Story Development
C. Familiarization Tours
VIII. Olympic Challenges and Unmet Expectations
IX. Tips for Beijing and the Northeast China Region
By Mr. Dan Mabey |