A third of young football players are children of foreigners offering a wide range of social learning. Apart from free sport in clubs and associations, the vocation of schools referring to Olympism must be stressed. Almost a million students intensively studied Olympism through the NOC programmes. In the subjects of Religious and Ethic Education, Social Education, Arts, Music, German and PE, they dealt with subjects of Olympic ideals in most differing ways, often without naming them. Children of 47 nations visit my school, making Olympism an everyday topic.
Sport plays a decisive role for social learning.
In many ways, families educate their children in the Olympic spirit. This is never discussed but these educational aspects influence the young people s lives and ultimately lead to the discrepancy between demands and reality regarding Olympism in our times mentioned earlier. These few examples show that Olympism has no rigid, monolithic form but dynamically changes with the generations. Nevertheless, there is the shortcoming that the Olympic Games show too less of the true Olympic values. Olympic traditions in the USA or in Australia are different from those valid in Germany.