올림픽 운동과 올림픽 시스템에 대한 규범적 고찰 - 스포츠의 국제적 법체계 -

Nowadays. the Olympic Games is a international humankind festival crossing the whole world and a major international sport event of summer and winter sport games in which thousands of athletes compete in a wide variety of events. The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th century forced the IOC to adapt the Games to the world's changing social circumstances and one of peculiar phenomena of world culture. Actually, modern Olympism was conceived by Pierre de Coubertin, on whose initiative the International Athletic Congress of Paris was held in June 1894. For that purpose the International Olympic Committee (IOC) constituted itself on 23 June 1894. Olympic Movement is organized under the basis of Olympism from the beginning. As the Olympic Charter illustrating, Olympism is a philosophy of life. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. Therefore the Olympic Movement is the concerted, organised, universal and permanent action, carried out under the supreme authority of the IOC. The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised in accordance with Olympism and its values. The three main constituents of the Olympic Movement are the International Olympic Committee, the International Sports Federations and the National Olympic Committee. Among them IOC took the status of supremacy. With the legal authority, the mission of the IOC is to promote Olympism throughout the world and to lead the Olympic Movement. Actually the practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play. Considering these all legal issues based on the Olympic Charter, this paper exams Olympic Movement and Olympic System from the perspective of international legal framework of sport and hoping that this paper would serve as the basic documents for the development of sports law and legislative materials.