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On December 19, 1895, the Pest Diary wrote: “The committee formed by the tournament and the sports associations of Budapest on the theme of the Olympic Games will meet at the premises of the National Gymnastics Association on December 19 at six pm”.
Four days later, on December 23, we read in the same newspaper: “The Hungarian Preparatory Committee for the Olympics was finally formed (this was the real MOB, with Albert Berzeviczy in the presidency). Gyula from Wlassics to the Minister of Public Education, asking him to make available to the commission the 1,000 HUF included in the budget for this purpose, so that he can financially support the most professional competitors to be sent. The petition was signed in addition to the representatives of several sports associations in the capital: Haris Pál Consul General of Greece, dr. President Albert Berzeviczy, György Gerenday Vice President and Ferenc Kemény Secretary. The committee also decided to hold a private match in early March to select the champions to be dispatched. “
Photo: olimpia.hu
In the Hercules issue of January 1, 1896, the upcoming Athens Olympic Games are specifically mentioned: “It is quite certain that the Hungarians will also participate in the international competitions in Athens. Should we say how much glory it would be to return to you and your country as a victor? ”.
And in that warmth, an inscription was sent to the Minister of Religion and Public Education:
Given that in the detailed budget of the Ministry of Culture for 1896, the Transitory Expenditure represents Hungary in the international association for the introduction of the Olympic Games in Athens 1000 florins In view of the fact that the time is very advanced, the undersigned commission sincerely requests your great dignity: to please this amount of HUF 1,000, subject to ex post settlement, to make this amount available to this commission at the request of Your Highness. to provide financial assistance to the champions who provide the most dignified and successful representation to the most communities.
Palicsi olimpia? Sure, it was!
In Hungary, the XIX. Towards the end of the 20th century, in parallel with the spread of modern sports, more and more people were writing about the “Olympians” and more and more a competition was called the “Olympic Games”. The longest Lajos Vermes, a complete athlete of the 1880s. By designating himself as a fantastic world champion of all kinds, Vermes liked that his competitions at Subotica and Palic were an “Olympic championship”, and we know from his records that Baron Pierre de Coubertin Vermes responded to his 1894 letter of invitation as a member of the Cluj Athletic Club.
The so-called “Palic Olympics” were a little known, specific and significant event of Hungarian Olympism, such as Hungarians at the Olympic Games from 1896 to 2016 thick post mentions. The creation of the old man Worms Nándor we can consider who your children are, Lajos and Nándor and his cousin, Béla Vermes. In addition, a later Olympic champion also helped, György Sztancsics, who won the 3,000-meter walk at the so-called Intermediate Olympic Games in Athens in 1906. The Vermes here in Palic built the Monarchy’s first elliptical running track with a grandstand. Of what?
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In the Hungarian Olympic movement, events accelerated in 1894. In April, Ferenc Kemény received a letter from Baron Coubertin requesting a list, ostensibly to send invitations to the Olympic Congress. Then the famous Paris Congress took place, where on June 16, 1894, in the ceremonial hall of the Sorbonne – “amid a thunderous storm of applause” – the International Olympic Committee was formed, among its founding members Ferenc Kemény, who was soon elected vice president.
Few people know that it has arisen very seriously: As the fight between the sponsors and the opponents of the Olympic Games has intensified in Greek internal politics, Budapest will take over the organization of the first five-ring games. Coubertin had already withdrawn confidence from the Greeks and looked elsewhere.
Tough and some Hungarian sports leaders volunteered to “jump” as director in the framework of the millennium celebrations.
– as he did with the World Water Championships in 2017 – but at the end of the apparently good, albeit costly idea, Public Education Minister Gyula Wlassics had made it unrealistic to hold the 1896 Olympics in the capital city due to lack of equipment, facilities and experience.
However, this did not prevent waist athletes from forming, on December 19, 1895, as mentioned in the introduction, the Budapest tournament body and sports associations, which we consider the predecessor of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
There is nothing new during the day: the first thing the board did was ask the Minister of Majesty for a sum of 1,000 HUF …
This has happened for 125 years. Meanwhile he had twenty presidents of the MOB From Berzeviczy to Krisztián Kulcsár, nine Hungarian members of the International Olympic Committee (Kemény, Conde Géza Andrássy, Gyula Muzsa, Jr. Miklós Horthy, Ferenc Mező, Árpád Csanádi, Pál Schmitt, Tamás Soov and Dániel Gyurta) and we won 177 gold, 151 silver and 174 bronze medals.
And now we are preparing for the Tokyo Olympics. Unless the virus intervenes …
(Cover image: Opening ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics. Photo: Wikipedia)
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