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Olympic
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Mexico
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1968
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Mexico
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| To facilitate the organization of the Games
of the XIX Olympiad, as well as the technical control of the competitions,
guides were prepared to define responsibilities and specify duties. These
guides, along with the International Regulations, the organization diagrams
for the competitions, and corresponding explanatory pamphlets, constituted
the normative structure of the organization of the events. The competitions
in each sport were entrusted to a directive body- usually called the Governing
Board of Competitions-which was in charge of not only the administrative
requirements but also the actual holding of the events. These Boards were
aided by the direct participation and the resources of each sports section.
All the functions carried out by the sections were authorized and supervised
by the international sports federations and had as their object the optimal
execution of the events. In turn, the sections were aided and supported
by all departments of the Organizing Committee.
In fulfilling the obligations imposed by the
Olympic Regulations and in carrying out the tasks deemed necessary by the
Committee, the following publications (which formed part of the General
Program of the Publications Department) were produced: requirements and
minimum marks set by the international sports federations in order to participate
in the Games of the XIX Olympiad; a pamphlet explaining IOC Regulation
38; twenty explanatory pamphlets, one for each sport; the Official Program;
the Calendar of Meetings and International Congresses of the Games of the
XIX Olympiad; copies of the sixteen official regulations of the international
sports federations; eighteen programs, one for each sport; a manual of
general instructions; eighteen pamphlets, one for each sport, related to
training; five special pamphlets on athletics, two on yachting, one on
gymnastics and another on canoeing and rowing; eighteen competition instruction
booklets; eighteen rule books for judges, referees, members of juries,
and technical officials; and an Olympic Sports Manual.
(Source document: Official
Report 1968, Vol. II, page 125) |
| Perhaps the most important instrument
of the Program of Olympic Identity was the material produced by the Publications
Department of the Organizing Committee. Prominent among the productions
of this Department was a deluxe bulletin-MEXICO 68, XIX OLYMPIAD-printed
in full color and available in three languages. Along with the series of
eleven of these Bulletins, which totaled 275,000 copies, forty-four Olympic
Newsletters (each accompanied by a Pictorial Review) were also published
in three languages, with a total of 3,661,460 copies. These publications
were distributed to the IOC, national Olympic committees, international
and national sports federations, universities, cultural centers, clubs,
embassies, newspapers and magazines, as well as to many other organizations
and individuals throughout the world. They presented current reports on
the progress of constructions and other preparations for the Games, historical
and contemporary sports reviews, historical and cultural descriptions of
Mexico, as well as a view of the country as it is today. The publications
Department also produced a vast assortment of programs and posters directly
related to the sports competitions. Among the most important of these were:
125,000 programs for the opening and closing
ceremonies;
65,000 general programs arranged by sport
and by days:
300,000 posters of the general program of
sports;
21 deluxe programs totaling 348,400 copies;
19 informative sports pamphlets totaling
2,850,000 copies;
20 booklets of official regulations totaling
271,000 copies;
18 sports posters totaling 287,000 copies;
and 4,500 copies of a book describing sports
courts and playing fields.
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For the Cultural Program, the Publications
Department produced
93 deluxe programs totaling 726,150 copies,
88 hand programs totaling 607,250 copies;
13 catalogues and sets of color reproductions
of individual artists, totaling 80,000 copies;
11 cultural pamphlets totaling 177,000 copies;
8 guides to art exhibitions in Mexico City
totaling 33,000 copies;
books on the photographer Alvarez Bravo,
the lithographer Casimiro Castro, and the Salon of Mexican Plastic Arts;
19 posters of events of the Cultural Program
totaling 190,500 copies;
and 58 posters mexiof cultural events totaling
420,000 copies.
In addition, special promotion of the Games
included 300,000 fold-out pamphlets; 23 news-events mural posters totaling
250,500 copies; and 41 special posters totaling 1,694,000 copies.
(Source document: Official
Report 1968, Vol. II, page 298) |
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