(ATR) The International Olympic Committee is undertaking an ambitious project to record the history of the Olympic Games through a series of in-depth video interviews.
The project, ‘Words of Olympians’ is coordinated by the IOC’s Culture and Education department and is aiming to record the history of as many Olympians as possible.
"The Olympic Movement had official archives with results and we had images and objects from athletes in the Museum’s collection, but we didn’t really have the voices of athletes, their memories," explained the project’s manager, Anna Volz.
"We launched this project which consists of interviewing and filming athletes with a green screen background so we can use the footage for virtually anything we want. We ask them about their experiences as an Olympian, to build history of these experiences, a history of the Games seen by the athletes. When we put together all those memories, we can do something great in the future. We can use it for many projects – exhibitions, web projects, quotes for text and more."
Prior to the Rio Games, the project had already captured the oral history of 350 athletes, with the oldest Olympian having competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Filming has been taking place throughout Rio 2016 at both the Athletes Village and the Olympians Reunion Centre, with the assistance of the World Olympians Association.
"It is a great project," said Mike Miller, CEO of the World Olympians Association.
"The idea is to try and collate all of the stories of Olympians to bring to life past Games, peoples experiences. You can see how things have changed, but also how the Olympics has changed peoples' lives.
"They take the spirit of being in the Olympic Village and mixing with people from all over the world; of competing but still being friendly with people – and they take that and use that in the rest of their life."
Written by Alice Wheelerin Rio de Janeiro
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