Olympic Oath

The Olympic Athlete's Oath

First sworn by the Belgian athlete Victor Boin at the 1920 Games of the 7th Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium. The athlete swear on the Olympic Flag,
"We swear that we will take part in these Olympic Games in the true spirit of sportsmanship, and that we will respect and abide by the rules that govern them, for the glory of sport and the honour of our country."

To reflect the changing nature of the sporting competition, the oath has been modified and the current version was introduced in 1999. It is:

"In the name of all competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams."

ATHLETES WHO HAVE SWORN THE OLYMPIC OATH
Venue	Year	Name	Events
Antwerp	1920	Victor Boin	Fencing
Paris	1924	Georges Andre	Athletics
Amsterdam	1928	Henri Denis	Football
Los Angeles	1932	George Calnan	Fencing
Berlin	1936	Rudolf Ismayr	Weightlifting
London	1948	Donald Finlay	Athletics
Helsinki	1952	Heikki Savolainen	Artistic Gymnastics
Melbourne	1956	John Landy	Athletics
Rome	1960	Adolfo Consolini	Athletics
Tokyo	1964	Takashi Ono	Artistic Gymnastics
Mexico City	1968	Pablo Lugo Garrido	Athletics
Munich	1972	Heidi Schuller	Athletics
Montreal	1976	Pierre Saint-Jean	Weightlifting
Moscow	1980	Nikolay Andrianov	Artistic Gymnastics
Los Angeles	1984	Edwin Moses	Athletics
Seoul	1988	Hah Jae and Son Mi Na	Basketball & Handball
Barcelona	1992	Luis Doreste Blanco	Sailing
Atlanta	1996	Teresa Edwards	Basketball
Sydney	2000	Rechelle Hawkes	Hockey
Athens	2004	Zoi Dimoschaki	Swimming
Beijing	2008	Zhang Yiningi	Table Tennis