The Olympic Congress is a vast gathering of the Olympic Movement, which happens on an irregular basis, but generally every ten years or so during the last few decades. The Congress is organized by the International Olympic Committee.
Thirteenth Olympic Congress (2009)
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has announced in 2005 that the next and thirteenth Olympic Congress is scheduled in 2009. The host city will be elected in 2006 in Turin, Italy. The candidate cities are: Athens (Greece), Busan (South Korea), Cairo (Egypt), Copenhagen (Denmark), Lausanne (Switzerland), Mexico City (Mexico), Riga (Latvia), Taipei (Republic of China) and Singapore.
Past Olympic Congress
- 1914 in Paris : Olympic regulations
- 1921 in Lausanne : Olympic regulations
- 1925 in Prague : Sports pedagogy – Olympic regulations
- 1930 in Berlin : Olympic regulations
- 1973 in Varna : Sport for a world of peace – The Olympic Movement and its future
- 1981 in Baden-Baden: The future of the Olympic Games – International cooperation – The future Olympic Movement
- 1994 in Paris : The Olympic Movement’s contribution to modern society – The contemporary athlete – Sport in its social context – Sport and the mass media.
| Year | City | Themes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ist | 1894 | Paris | Re-establishment of the Olympic Games |
| IInd | 1897 | Le Havre | Sports hygiene and pedagogy |
| IIIrd | 1905 | Brussels | Sport and physical education |
| IVth | 1906 | Paris | Art, literature and sport |
| Vth | 1913 | Lausanne | Sports psychology and physiology |
| VIth | 1914 | Paris | Olympic regulations |