KINE 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Bach, Pierre De Coubertin, 1988 Summer Olympics

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 3440
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

South korea was hosting the olympics, and north korea wanted to co-host some of these events. This was in 1988 in the seoul summer olympics. International olympic committee (ioc: the rst meeting that discussed reviving the olympic games was in 1894. It was decided that the rst olympics would be in greece, and the second one would be held in paris, on 1896 and 1900, respectively. In the beginning, the olympics were just a side event. Demetrios vikelas became the rst president of the ioc, but only stayed as president for 2 years (1894-1896). He was elected because at the time the president had to be from the country where the next olympics was being held, and since it was in athens, they picked him. Sigfried edstrom (1942-1952: the fourth president, he brought the soviets into the olympics in 1942, although he didn"t want to.