Understanding the olympic phenomenon through the olympic circles at school level

Why did we reinstate the Olympic Games? Coubertin asked himself, "To ennoble and strengthen sports, to ensure their independence and vitality and thus make them capable of better fulfilling their educational role in the modern world. For the glorification of the individual athlete, whose existence is necessary for the muscular activity of the collective and whose performances are indispensable for maintaining the general emulation." Olympism is neither a religion, nor an ideology, nor a political doctrine, nor a socio-economic system . It is a state of mind, a value of life. A vision of man: "A school of nobility and moral purity", a school of character; the cult of the disinterested ideal, the effort to raise our conception of honor and dignity to the altitude of physical vigor. Olympism encourages the establishment of relationships of respect and friendship between people, in order to strengthen peace and understanding between peoples. Can it be a nobler ideal? Unfortunately, sports sometimes have a tendency to get out of control. Violence in many stadiums has become a problem today. Complications of all kinds in international life affect sports competitions, which become a field of confrontation and a reason for crisis. Victory or defeat become causes with which entire communities identify, going up to the national level. The stadiums look more like volcano craters in full eruption; firecrackers are thrown, the decibels increase breaking the eardrums, there are fights that are difficult to moderate by the law enforcement officers; tribunes are set on fire or destroyed, streets become scenes of fights, people live nightmares. Olympism can penetrate the younger minds, can influence the behavior of students, establishing itself along with other social components as an educational factor, if the actions to promote and understand the Olympic spirit, would become a constant concern of physical education teachers. Starting from these premises, the objective of the research was to carry out a number of four activities, through which to promote the Olympic spirit in the municipality of Bacău, with the support of the Bacău Branch of the Romanian Olympic Academy, the County School Inspectorate, the Traffic Police of the municipality of Bacău, as well as the Sports Directorate of Bacău County. The methods used in the research were the following: the method of studying the specialized bibliography, the historical method, the survey method and the mathematical statistical method of data recording and processing. The proposed actions to achieve the proposed objective, respectively: The establishment of Olympic Circles in schools, the Literature and Journalism Competition - " A pen called fair - play", The painting competition - "Olympic Games in children's imagination", the theoretical knowledge competition "Who knows Olympism, wins", and the Cross-Country of the Olympic day, that have respected the registration and implementation regulations of the Romanian Olympic Academy. Following the study carried out, we can state that the objective was achieved by obtaining results on the basis of which we formulated the following conclusions: the dynamism of the existing Olympic circles and the establishment of four new Olympic circles in schools, had the first effect of engaging a number of 115 students in the organized actions. The literature contest - "A pen called fair-play", was an action in which 85 students from schools in the municipality of Bacău participated. Organized by three age categories, the works of the participating students were corrected by Romanian language teachers (Specialist inspectors from ISJ Bacău). The theoretical knowledge contest "Who knows Olympism, wins", involved four educational units, by designating a crew made up of five students, who possess a good and very good general culture. This presupposed, on the one hand, the holding of competitions at school level, in order to select the best students, and on the other hand, the determination of a large number of teaching staff (not necessarily physical education) to get involved in the Olympic activity. The Olympic cross-country race held on May 28, 2023, gathered at the start over 550 students, from all the schools and high schools in the city, and only. We also believe that we have managed to change the idea that Olympism only means sport and we propose to transform this initiative into a priority activity for the year 2024, especially since the holding of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 could constitute an important adjunct to our efforts.