Workers' Olympiad (Twilight of a New Era)

Workers' Olympiad (WO) is an international multisport event celebrated every four years since 1925. The founding congress (1920) of the Sozialistische Arbeiter Sport Internationale (SASI) mandate the organization of a sports events as socialist alternative to the 'bourgeois' Olympics. Its first edition was in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The Comintern created the Sportintern has a rival organization to the SASI. The Sportintern organized the Spartakiads of Berlin and Moscow. In 1936 has consequence of the change in the policy of the Comintern and the Socialist and Labor International willness to reestablish unity of the socialist movement both agree on the fusion of the SASI and Sportintern. The Common Congress of the SASI-Sportintern agrees to continue to promote sports has ''... an event that promotes international friendship and solidarity among the working people and nations of the world... and promoting the people's participation and recreation... '''

Since 1941 it also the main venue of the International Pavilion of Industry and Science, organized by the ICSS.

Editions of the WO

 * 1. 1925 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
 * 2. 1929 Antwerp (Netherlands)
 * 2. 1933 Vienna (Austria-Hungary)
 * 3. 1937 Madrid (Spain) First event organized by the SASI-Sportinern
 * 4. 1941 Odessa (Ukraine)

Names in the working languages of the SASI-Sportintern
 * Workers' Olympiad (English)
 * Olimpiade Ouvrière (French)
 * Arbeiter Olympiade (German)
 * Рабочих Oлимпиад / Rabochih olimpiad (Russian)
 * Laborista Olimpiado (Esperanto)

Sports played in the WO

 * Futbol (team)
 * Rugby (team)
 * Baseball (Team, added in 1941)
 * Swinning (team and individual)
 * Gymnastics (team and individual)
 * Athletics (team and individual)