First seminar on “Education and the Olympic Movement: Olympic values in education”
The Darder Museum in Banyoles hosted this first seminar on Education and the Olympic Movement organised by the Banyoles Centre for Olympic Studies – University of Girona, in collaboration with the Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
The Department of Justice of the Catalonia Regional Government presented the Prison Olympic Games.
The Olympic Games in Barcelona was a model of inspiration for many entities and educational activities. That same year the Justice Department launched the first edition of the Prison Olympics, 24 editions of which had already been held, and is one of the tools for integrating interns to the outside world.
Bojan Krkic and Marco Asensio, sponsors of the first edition of “Nike Camp – Open Camp”
The Olympic and Sport Museum hosted the official presentation of the collaboration between Open Camp and Nike Camp, the summer football and basketball camps held every year in Andorra under the umbrella of NIKE.
The rings of ‘l’Àngel Daurat’, donated to the Olympic Museum
Two sets of original rings with ropes from the Blume Gymnasium, and used by Joaquin Blume, leader of the Spanish artistic gymnastics, have been added to the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum collection.
‘Així jugo’ campaign to promote the values of sport
The #Aixíjugo campaign, driven by the Catalonia Sporting Federations Union (UFEC), which aims to promote civic behavior and values in the field of sports, was presented at an event held in the Olympic and Sport Museum auditorium.
BOUNCE: HOW THE BALL TAUGHT THE WORLD TO PLAY’ WINNER OF THE 7TH EDITION OF THE BCN SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Marta Carranza, President of the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica and Commissioner for Sports of the City Council of Barcelona was the person who gave the Àmfora Ciutat de Barcelona to the best film in the 7th edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival to ‘Bounce: How the ball taught the world to play’, a documentary by Jerome Thélia and produced by Anne Carkeet (Merge Group). ‘Bounce’ explores the origins of our favourite sports. The documentary spans languages and continents to show how the ball has gained importance in our lives and fuelled our passion for competition. Consul General of United States, Marcos Mandojana, has received the award.
Presentation of Temporal Exhibition 3, 2,1… Rio
Vice consol of Brazil, Edgar Cabral Cardoso, inaugurated the exposition “3, 2, 1…RIO”. This exhibition is on show until 18th Septembre at Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch.
Daniel Justribó collaborates with the Centre d’Estudis Olímpics i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch
The biologist Daniel Justribó ceded his publication “Feminitat, Esport, Cultura: Pioneres de l’atletisme català (1921-1938)” to the Centre d’Estudis Olímpic and visited the Museum Olímpic facilities.
Lulama Smuts Ngonyama, South African Ambassador in Madrid, has approached the Olympic Museum to visit the Mandela-AWEPA space.
Lulama Smuts, on an official visit with AWEPA Spain, met with Josep Maldonado, President of AWEPA Spain, visited the Olympic Museum to see the space dedicated to Nelson Mandela, a childhood friend of Lulama.
Icària, the boat that carried the Olympic torch over the Mediterranean.
The 1992 Barcelona Olympic flame reached Empúries over the Mediterranean Sea. Young Mariana Aguilera was entrusted to carry the flame to the Catalan coast on board the Icària.
