Talk:Olympic Oath

Greek
"It was spoken in Greek in Athens 2004." Is this significant enough to be mentioned in the opening paragraph? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.46.234.64 (talk) 17:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * yes, i agree, plus other languages are mentioned, and don't appear on the table below. it is obvious that the language spoken will be the one spoken in the host nation. it doesn't deserve mention in the lead section. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 22:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Any Olympic Oaths.

Many olympic oaths can be changed every olympic year. But this year for 2008 it hasn't changed since 2004. competitors recite an oath that they will promise to do properly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.188.179.26 (talk) 12:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Creed Redirect?
I'm confused as to why "Olympic Creed" redirects to "Olympic Oath". Unless I'm missing something, they're two different things. "The most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight ; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well." is the creed.  DippyDawg1932  05:59, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed now. Thanks. Wonder why that took so long. User:Pedant (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Use of "sportpersonship" instead of "sportsmanship"
Shouldn't the oath be changed from "sportsmanship" to "sportspersonship"? I mean, since almost all modern English media use the word "spokeperson" rather than the gender-specific "spokesman", and this also applies when previously we, as English speakers, talked about "firemen" but are now talking about "firefighters" or talked about "chairmen" and are now talking about "chairpeople".
 * I also suggest the change to the IOC to reflect the fact that women are also athletes, if you don't believe me look at Russian tennis player Martina Nabratilova. She's a woman and yet it does not stop her from playing tennis.

By the way, I have a very reliable source for the last example ("chairman" being replaced by "chairperson"): the lecture on language sexism from "Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society" Chapter 4, called "Gender issues today", which deals with language sexism. You can listen to the lecture on the last two tracks of CD 1 of 3. --Fandelasketchup (talk) 11:23, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Oath in languages other than English
I've added the oath in other languages, as taken from the Wikipedia articles. Conversions of non-Latin scripts was done using Google Translate. The Swedish text is not available, but the text of the oath in all the other languages of host countries was included. Roches (talk) 17:25, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Nice idea, but if you list them in this article, it would make more sense to include the actual oaths spoken, not simply the translation of the official text. In particular in Sarajevo, Bojan Križaj said the oath in his native Slovene, mixed up the text and went blank for a while - according to Slovenian rumours it was a minor controversy and it wasn't rehearsed properly, but it wasn't a surprise as the US commentator explained it already in advance and even saying "it's not a matter of controversy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaCa56-tN4, 1:13:23). His exact words:"Obljubljam, da bomo na teh olimpijskih igrah nastopili v pravem športnem duhu, da bomo spoštovali pravila in se po njih ravnali ... ... v slavo športa in čast svoje domovine. (I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, respecting and abiding by the rules, for the glory of sport and the honour of our homeland.)"
 * Drugs & doping were added to the oath later, it would be good to research when and add the info to the article. Perović said:"U ime svih sudija i funkcionera, dajem obavezu da ćemo na ovim zimskim olimpijskim igrama suditi nepristrano, u pravom sportskom duhu, poštujući pravila olimpijskih takmičenja."--Messlo (talk) 00:36, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Why is there...?
Why is there absolutely no reference to drugs in the new, unified oath? And also, why do the judges' and coaches' representatives not complete the oath? I ask this second question because in the article, as it is written, it says that only the athletes' representative completes the oath, and I also ask the first one because there is a reference to doping, but not to drugs in the new oath. --Fandelasketchup (talk) 12:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)