Baron Pierre de
Coubertin Game: Founder of the Modern
Olympics Game Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Background:
Baron
Pierre de Coubertin (1863 – 1937), a French educator and historian, recreated
the ancient Olympic Games of Greece in 1896 into what is now the International
Olympic Committee (IOC).
The
original Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece in 800 BC. The first modern Olympics were held in
Athens, Greece.
Game Objective:
In
this game of Coubertin, French Club members will learn about the International
Olympics Committee (IOC), which has French as one of its official languages.
There
are 10 tasks to complete in this game to learn about sports marketing and
sports management.
Tasks:
Task
1:
Look
up information about the Junior Olympics to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland in
2020.
If
you are interested in competing in the Junior Olympics or volunteering as an
adult, you might want to look up how to do this at www.olympic.org .
Task
2:
What
do the colors on the Olympic flag stand for?
Task
3:
List
the different sports played at both the summer and winter Olympics.
Task
4:
Find
the website for all the international organizations of the Olympic sports
played and read their history.
Task
5:
If
you are interested in playing any of the Olympic sports, read the complete
rules and then contact the international organization asking for rules to
follow to compete at the Junior Olympics, if you are interested.
Task
6:
In
the US, there are scholar-athlete scholarships available at many universities.
Athletes
often receive training in ethics, public relations, and merchandising, so it is
worthwhile to look into the possibilities of practicing various sports such as curling
to popularize it. If you can curl well,
you get to be an Olympic athlete.
Task
7:
Play
one sport each season beginning in junior high, so you can to learn game rules
and build strength and endurance. You do
need a doctor’s permission to compete.
(Factcheck needed and the same goes for any diet, you wish to embark
on.)
Task
8:
Read
a sports marketing textbook such as the one by Fullerton Press that is simply
entitled Sports Marketing or a
similar one as an introduction to public relations and merchandising in sports.
Task
9:
Read
Principles and Practice of Sport
Management by Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, and Mary Hums or a
similar book as an introduction to owning a sports franchise.
Task
10:
Develop
a business plan for yourself as an athlete to merchandize lifestyle items.
Game
on!!!
Ruth
Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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