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 1925 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 1. Common Congress of the SASI-Sportintern agrees to continue to organize and promote the Workers' Olympiad 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.

Its difference with the Olympic Games is that athletes represent the workers' sporting association, voluntary sports societies, sports clubs, civic recreational associations or ad-hoc associations that are members of or sponsors them. Participants also have the option to inscribe individually. Only a red flag is showed and the Internationale is sung. One of the main events are the Days of the Mass Events that are organized has a series of event to erase the division between athletes (professional or amateur) and the public.

Editions of the WO
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

 * Athletics (team and individual)
 * Baseball (team, added in 1941)
 * Basketball (team)
 * Beach Volleyball (team and individual) Summer Games, later part of Water Games
 * Boxing (individual)
 * Boating (team and individual)
 * Boating and Canoeing (team and individual) Summer Games, later part of Water Games
 * Cricket (exhibition game)
 * Cycling (team and individual)
 * Diving (team and individual) Water Games
 * Football (team and Mass Event)
 * Gymnastics (team and individual)
 * Handball (team)
 * Hiking (exhibition sport and Mass Event)
 * Ice Hockey (team) Winter Games
 * Judo (team and individual)
 * Karate (team and individual)
 * Petanque (team)
 * Rugby (team)
 * Sailing (team and individual) Summer Games, later part of Water Games
 * Skating (team, individual and Mass Event) Winter Games
 * Skiing (team, individual and Mass Event) Winter Games
 * Synchronized swimming (team and individual) Water Games
 * Swimming (team and individual) Summer Games, later part of Water Games
 * Table tennis (ping-pong) (team and individual and Mass Event)
 * Volleyball (team)
 * Yachting (exhibition game and Mass Event) Water Games
 * Wrestling (team and individual)