Od Olimpa do Olimpa temu Olimpijske igre”, jedan je iz niza projekata olimpijskog obrazovanja u korist etičkih i moralnih standarda u odrastanju mladih naraštaja. Kao podloga za učenje o Olimpijskim igrama poslužila je knjiga “Što znate o Olimpijskim igrama?”, u izdanju Olimpijskog muzeja u Lausanni, a koju su Hrvatski olimpijski odbor i Hrvatska olimpijska akademija pripremili na hrvatskome jeziku. Hrvatski su učenici, članovi školskih športskih društava, brojnim prezentacijama, radionicama ili športskim izvedbama pokazali istinsko razumijevanje važnosti i ugleda najvećeg međunarodnog športskog događaja Olimpijskih igara, te dali neprocjenjivi dar toj proslavi, svoje viđenje Igara i njihovo značenje. Dobitnici nagrade uz zahvalnicu i prigodne novčane naknade u kategoriji osnovnih škola redom su: 1. Školsko sportsko društvo O.Š. Vidovec 2.ŠSD Mladost, O.Š. August Cesarec, Ivankovo 3. ŠSD Goran, O.Š. Ivan Goran Kovačić, Gora. U kategoriji srednjih škola: 1. ŠSD Bedex, Bedekovčina, 2. ŠSD Gaj, Krapina, 3. ŠSD Sokol, Donji Miholjac.
Iz tiska izašao najnoviji broj HŠMV-a U rujnu je iz tiska izašao najnoviji broj Hrvatskog športskomedicinskog vjesnika (HŠMV) kojeg Hrvatski olimpijski odbor, njegov izdavač, tiska dva puta godišnje. Uredništvo pod vodstvom glavne urednice Branke Matković s Kineziološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu te zamjenika Ive Vidovića, u ovom je broju objavilo niz stručnih i znanstvenih članaka iz područja športske medicine, kineziologije i pojedinih športova poput gimnastike i rukometa. HŠMV je dvojezično pisan (hrvatski i engleski), indeksiran je u brojnim međunarodnim znanstvenim i stručnim bibliotekama i može ga se, uz ostalo, u cijelosti čitati na portalu http://hrcak.srce.hr Besplatan primjerak dobivaju liječnici koji rade u stručnim timovima športaša i nacionalnih športskih saveza, specijalisti športske medicine, fizioterapeuti, nacionalni športski savezi i drugi. HŠMV utemeljen je prije 28 godina (isprva kao Košarkaški medicinski vjesnik) i okuplja brojna ugledna imena medicine, športa i srodnih disciplina iz Hrvatske i svijeta. Među njima su olimpijci i liječnici Tomislav Smoljanović i Sanda Dubravčić-Šimunjak, Saša Janković, Lana Ružić, Maroje Sorić, Antonela Nedić, Švicarac Niklaus Friederich, Gideon Mann iz Izraela, Paulo Armada da Silva iz Portugala i mnogi drugi.
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„Croatia and Olympic medals“ – the unique book on Olympians’ biographies In the presence of many notables of Croatian sports, on September 9th in the Journalists’ Home in Zagreb, the book „Croatia and Olympic medals” by Jurica Gizdic, the most productive researcher of the Croatian sports history, was presented. The book published by Alfa d.d. from Zagreb and supported by the Croatian Olympic Committee brings the biographies of 291 Olympians who have indebted the Croatian sports, but also the community as a whole. From Paris Olympics in 1900 up to the London Olympics in 2012, from Milan Neralic, the first Croat winner of Olympic medal, to Sandra Perkovic, the gold winning athlete in London, the public was disclosed, for the first time, the biographies of Croats that are incorporated into the Croatian and world Olympic movement. “This is a unique book in which, along with the biographies of our Olympians, not only sports and Olympic, but also the Croatian political history is written”, said the COC President Mr. Zlatko Matesa at the presentation of the book. According to Danira Bilic Nakic, the silver winning basketball player at the Olympics in 1988, who spoke on behalf of the Croatian Olympians Club, the book “Croatia and Olympic medals” comes as a wonderful gift at a time when the Croatian Parliament definitively voted the compensation for sports excellence to the best Croatian athletes, which was a debt to the Croatian Olympic athletes, the best ambassadors of our country. The book “ Croatia and Olympic medals”, which – as announced by the publishing house „Alfa“ – will be available not only in their bookstores, but also in the school libraries across Croatia, will be an introduction into a series of books on our best coaches, the most successful Croatian athletes, while the Crown of the publishing venture of Jurica Gizdic, as mentioned by the President of the Croatian Sports Journalists Association Mr. Jura Ozmec , should be a book about all the Croatian athletes who performed at the Olympics and it should be published on the eve of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The author himself Mr. Jurica Gizdic, the Vice President of the Croatian Society for History of Sport wanted to show with this book, which was a result of years of research of the history of our sports, how much the Croatian Sports have brought to the Olympic Movement and the extent of the Croatian Olympic medal holder in the former state (Yugoslavia).
Croatian students on the Olympics The Croatian Olympic Academy and Croatian School Sports Federation organized in the beginning of September the final selection of the best students’ presentations on the Olympics, which was this year’s theme on learning about international Olympism and the Olympic Movement. According to the agreement signed by these two prominent institutions in January 2013, this contest titled “School sports and the Olympic Movement”, is one of a series of projects of Olympic education in favor of ethical and moral standards in the raising of young generations. The base for learning about the Olympics was the book “What do you know about the Olympics?”, published by the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, which the Croatian Olympic Committee and the Croatian Olympic Academy have prepared in Croatian. Students, members of school sports associations, showed through numerous presentations, workshops or athletic performances a true understanding of the importance and reputation of the largest international sports event - the Olympic Games, and thereby gave their perception of the Games and their significance. The most successful in the competition of primary and high schools were awarded the prizes and commemorative compensations.