Movement

The International Olympic Movement aims at practically implementing the Olympic Ideals through a conglomeration of organizations and individuals. The Olympic Movement embraces the IOC, the NOCs, the IFs, the IOA, the NOAs, Olympic Solidarity, athletes, sport officials and coaches, educationists and all persons and institutions whose goal is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practiced without discrimination of any kind, and in the Olympic spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
The supreme authority of the Olympic Movement is the IOC www.olympic.org, created by the Paris Congress on 23rd June 1884. The IOC’s role is to lead the promotion of Olympism in accordance with the Olympic Charter.
The IOC encourages the development of sport on all levels and cooperates with competent organizations and authorities in an endeavor to place sport, free of all discrimination and transgression of limits at the service of humanity. It encourages the promotion of sport ethics and Olympic Ideals and takes measures to protect athletes and the unity of the Olympic Movement.
The IOC recognizes education as the backbone of the Olympic Movement, and thus supports the International Olympic Academy and other institutions devoted to Olympic education.