IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1461 
Supporting Olympic Day on June 23, 2010, and congratulating Team USA 
and World Fit participants. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 22, 2010 
Mr. LANGEVIN (for himself, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. BOOZMAN, and Mr. 
REICHERT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting Olympic Day on June 23, 2010, and 
congratulating Team USA and World Fit participants. 
Whereas Olympic Day, June 23, 2010, celebrates the Olym-
pic ideal of developing peace through sport; 
Whereas June 23 marks the anniversary of the founding of 
the modern Olympic movement, the date on which the 
Congress of Paris approved the proposal of Pierre de 
Coubertin to found the modern Olympics; 
Whereas for more than 100 years, the Olympic movement has 
built a more peaceful and better world by educating 
young people through amateur athletics, by bringing to-
gether athletes from many countries in friendly competi-
tion, and by forging new relationships bound by friend-
ship, solidarity, and fair play; 
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•HRES 1461 IH 
Whereas the United States advocates the ideals of the Olym-
pic movement; 
Whereas Olympic Day will encourage the development of 
Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United States; 
Whereas Team USA won an historic 37 medals at the Van-
couver 2010 Olympic Winter Games; 
Whereas Team USA won 13 medals at the Vancouver 2010 
Paralympic Winter Games; 
Whereas the USOC Paralympic Military Program provides 
post-rehabilitation support and mentoring to members of 
the United States Armed Forces who’ve sustained phys-
ical injuries such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord 
injury, amputation, visual impairment or blindness, and 
stroke; 
Whereas Olympic Day encourages the participation of youth 
of the United States in Olympic and Paralympic sport; 
Whereas World Fit, a program established by Olympians and 
Paralympians to promote physical fitness and a healthy 
lifestyle to middle school children and connect them with 
Olympic and Paralympic athletes and the Olympic Move-
ment, helped 7,239 students from 17 schools in 6 States 
walk a total of 769,148 miles in 6 weeks during the 2010 
program; 
Whereas Olympic Day will encourage the teaching of Olympic 
history, health, arts, and culture among the youth of the 
United States; and 
Whereas enthusiasm for Olympic and Paralympic sport is at 
an all-time high: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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•HRES 1461 IH 
(1) supports Olympic Day and the goals that 
Olympic Day pursues; 
(2) congratulates Team USA on their Van-
couver 2010 accomplishments; and 
(3) supports the goals of World Fit and con-
gratulates its participants on the 2010 results. 
Æ 
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