The management system and operational mechanism of the Austrian and British Olympic Committees

Both the Austrian Olympic Committee and the British Olympic Committee are relatively influential in the history of the development of the Olympic Movement. They are non-profit organizations independent of the government sports department and public sports organizations, and belong to social charities.

(1) The staff of the Olympic Committee are capable and have relatively single functions, and have the characteristics of “small institutions and big undertakings”.

The Austrian Olympic Committee has only six full-time and one part-time employees, but is responsible for promoting the development of the Austrian Olympic Movement. The British Olympic Committee and the Paralympic Committee work together, but they are two separate institutions. In terms of the number of personnel, there are 45 full-time employees of the Olympic Committee and 30 employees of the Paralympic Committee.

(2) The Olympic Committee establishes a business organization to promote marketing and commercial development. The Austrian and British Olympic Committees are all charitable organizations. In order to better develop the market, the Olympic Committees of the two countries have established operational organizations.

The Austrian Olympic Committee Executive Committee is composed of members of the Association, the Medical Council and the Athletes’ Committee. The Executive Committee wholly invested in the establishment of the Olympic limited liability company, which is also the Secretary-General of the Olympic Committee. According to Austrian law, the income of the Olympic company is tax-free.

The British Olympic Committee established the Olympic Foundation in 2007, which is also the nature of a limited liability company. Its funds are mainly derived from charitable donations and public organizations’ investment in lottery funds. The Foundation became one of the members of the Olympic Committee, and the Minister of the Outreach Department served as the CEO. Another full-time staff member was hired. In addition, 6-7 consultants were hired to work part-time in the Olympic company’s special work, such as the ”Get Set” project in Olympic education.

(3) The Olympic Committee takes the initiative to coordinate the relationship between the association and the national sports organization and promote the cooperation of all parties.

In coordinating the government sports department, the Austrian Olympic Committee has assumed more functions than the British Olympic Committee. The Austrian Olympic Committee maintains a close cooperative relationship with the relevant sports organizations in helping the development of individual associations in the country, especially in promoting the professional development of athletes. The British Olympic Committee has not received the appropriation and funding of the government sports department, nor has it accepted the evaluation of the government department. It has considerable autonomy. However, the cooperation between the Olympic Committee and sports organizations at all levels is closer and regular meetings will be held. Especially in the preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, the government departments used the lottery fund to establish the Olympic athlete training camp, which played a greater role in promoting the support and development of the Olympic Committee.

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Larry Bird, a famous NBA player, perhaps no more young people will know him, but he was very famous around 80s-90s in 20^th Century. Now he has became General Manager of Indiana Pacers. Let us have a read below,

Brief

Larry Joe Bird, born on December 7, 1956 in West Barton, Indiana, USA, is a former professional basketball player who works as a small forward/power forward, nicknamed Bird, and is currently the general manager of the Indiana Pacers.

Larry Bird was selected sixth in the first round of the 1978 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, then continued to study in College for one year and officially entered the NBA in 1979.

In 13 years of professional career, he worked for the Boston Celtics. He was elected the best rookie in the NBA in the rookie season. He won three NBA championships, three MVPs in the NBA regular season, two FMVPs in the NBA Finals, 12 NBA All-Star Teams and the NBA All-Star Team in 1982. Star MVP, nine times in the NBA’s best lineup for a while.

In 1990, he was selected as the best team in the NBA, three times as the best defensive team in the NBA, the best player of the year in 1986, and the champion of the three-year continuous NBA All-Star Three-point Competition from 1986 to 1988.

In 1992, Larry Joe Bird won the Barcelona Olympic gold medal on behalf of the American Men’s Basketball Team “USA Dream team”. On August 18 of the same year, Larry Joe Bird officially announced his retirement. In 1993, the Celtics retired from Larry Bird’s No. 33 jersey. In 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the NBA, Larry Bird was selected as the official “50 Greatest NBA Players of All Time”. Larry Bird was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.

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The most of people like to watch sports’ match such as Athletics. These sports will make audiences excited and more attractive to this TV program. Athletics matches not only may help countries participated to gain medals as national honor around the world, but it is also important to enhance and lead all of people to join in doing the sports and build up a good physique and improve us health.

What is Athletics

Athletics, is also called track and field, is the full name of field events, track events and all-around competitions. Modern track and field sports are classified into different categories mainly including walking, running, jumping, throwing, and even Triathlon  composed by parts of event of running, jumping, jumping, throwing, a total of more than 40 items for Athletics.

In Athletics (track and field), the event in which the results are calculated by time, is called track and field competition; the event in which the results are calculated by height or distance, is called track and field competition; and the Triathlon is calculated by the score of each individual event according to the track and field score table.

Global History

In ancient time, people had to run a considerable distance, jump obstacles, throw stones and use a variety of hunting tools in order to get the means of livelihood in the struggle with nature and kinds of animals. Repetition of these movements in labor leads to various skills of walking, running, jumping and throwing. With the development of society, people consciously use walking, running, jumping and throwing as forms of practice and competition.

In 3500 BC, ancient Egyptian frescoes have depicted Athletics (track and field) scenes. Track and field competitions originated from the ancient Greek Panhellenic Games. The earliest athletics (track and field) competitions were held at the first ancient Olympic Games to be held in the Greek Olympic Village in 776 BC. There was only one event – the short-distance race, with a straight track of 192.27 meters.

By the 10th Olympic Games in 708 BC, it officially included long jump, discus, javelin and other field events. At that time, only men were allowed to participate and women could not even watch, and the violators were sentenced to death. Since then, athletics has been one of the official events.

In 490 B.C., it is said that the Greek soldier Pheidippides traveled about 40 kilometers from Marathon City to Athens, in order to report the good news that the Greek army had defeated the Persian army. When he ran to Athens, great Pheidippides was exhausted and died. for memory of him so the marathon race was established at that time.

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