We are excited to announce that today 2nd of August, during the Paris Olympics, a collaborative event will take place among four IOC-recognized organizations that have common programs and synergies .
This meeting will be an important opportunity to strengthen the profile of the Olympic Community addressing different aspects of the Games and its various stakeholders. It is a unique opportunity that brings together four long-standing organizations: the Panathlon International, the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC), the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), and the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) with the aim of deepening mutual understanding .
For PI, our International President Giorgio Chinellato will be present who, together with Past-President Pierre Zappelli and other panathletes/executives, will have the task of dialoguing and analyzing how we can be stronger, “together”!
Speech delivered by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 today, 26 July 2024.
Thomas Bach during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024
The Past International President and the Secretary General will participate in the online Conference ‘Equality and Diversity in Francophone Sport: a reality?’, which will take place on Thursday 25 July 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:30pm at the Council of Europe office in Paris.
Programme attached
IOC President Bach: “You are the peace ambassadors of our time”
Hundreds of Olympic athletes representing the athletes of the territories of all the 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team made a powerful call for peace. Four days before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, they gathered in a solemn moment in the Olympic Village. Wearing scarfs with the message “Give peace a chance” and holding flags with the same words, they emphasised the powerful role that sport can play to foster peace and mutual understanding. The event included athletes from NOCs whose countries are currently in conflict or war with each other.
SAVE THE DATE - World Fair Play Day 5 September
The Governing Board of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) Consultative Committee, at its meeting on 24 April, decided, by written procedure, to renew the membership of Panathlon International for a period of three years from 13 October 2024.
The EPAS Executive Secretary, Sophie Kwasny, expressed words of thanks for the cooperation and constant interest in EPAS activities and PI efforts to promote the European Sports Charter.
“I look forward to continuing our fruitful collaboration and advancing our goals of making sport more ethical, safe and inclusive”.
Agrigento 14 June 2024 - During the gala dinner at the Hotel Dioscuri, a "Memorandum of Understanding" has been stipulated between Panathlon International and the "International Maxibasketball Federation" (FIMBA) represented by its President Dr. Rubén Rodríguez Lamas. The International Maxibasketball Federation is a non-profit civil association, founded on 21 August 1991 in the city of Buenos Aires - Argentina. It was formed with the purpose of promoting, sponsoring, encouraging, developing, organising, directing and controlling the practice of Maxibasket throughout the world, in compliance with Olympic and international basketball regulations.
FIMBA and PI have therefore agreed to establish a partnership for the promotion of panathletic values and Fair Play in the organisation of Maxibasket tournaments worldwide.
On Friday 28th June at Villa Queirolo in Rapallo the staff of the General Secretariat welcomed the new International President Giorgio Chinellato accompanied by his wife Paola.
A pleasant and constructive meeting in view of the upcoming future of Panathlon International.
The new #BeActive campaign is ready to start and European Sports Week 2024 is coming!
Save the date: 23-30 September.
#BeActive, the EU campaign that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle in Europe and beyond.
Panathlon Clubs always sensitive to this initiative, are invited to participate.
We are waiting for you!
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sports for Women”
Panathlon International Round Table – 14 June 2024 - Agrigento
A theme strongly wanted by the late President of the Commission for Culture, Science and Education, Eugenio Guglielmino. A topic that the International Council, at the time, had welcomed very favourably, considering it an extremely topical subject and still a crucial point. The proof is that at the next Olympic Games, for the first time, athletes will be represented equally for both sexes.
Protagonists of this Consensus therefore were the women: of great depth, committed to culture, sport and politics who, with their strong and engaging testimonies, provided much food for thought.
From gender equality to the elimination of all barriers in sport, to equal treatment and respect as persons. All coordinated by Brazilian Moderator Carlos Antonio Bramante of the CCSE of PI. Lively and stimulating then was the debate that involved both the audience and those connected. Piermarco Zen-Ruffinen (CH), a member of the CCSE will write the final report. The conference, available in Italian, English and French with subtitles in the required languages, can now be viewed online in its original version.