{"id":19368,"date":"2011-09-18T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/james-worrall-2\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:06:52","slug":"james-worrall","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/james-worrall\/","title":{"rendered":"James Worrall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quand James Worrall a port\u00e9 le drapeau du Canada \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie d&rsquo;ouverture des Jeux olympiques de 1936 \u00e0 Berlin, ce n&rsquo;\u00e9tait l\u00e0 que le d\u00e9but d&rsquo;une longue s\u00e9rie de contributions au sport de haut niveau.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aux Jeux de Berlin en 1936, James Worrall a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi pour agir comme porte-drapeau du Canada \u00e0 l&rsquo;occasion de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie d&rsquo;ouverture, probablement parce que du haut de son 1,96 m (6-pieds-5), il \u00e9tait le plus grand athl\u00e8te au sein de l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe canadienne. Il a particip\u00e9 aux \u00e9preuves du 110 m haies et du 400 m haies, mais il n&rsquo;a pas franchi la ronde pr\u00e9liminaire dans un cas comme dans l&rsquo;autre.<\/p>\n<p>Worrall a remport\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille d&rsquo;argent du 120 verges haies aux Jeux de l&rsquo;Empire britannique de 1934 et il a fini quatri\u00e8me du 440 verges haies. Il s&rsquo;est qualifi\u00e9 pour les Jeux de l&rsquo;Empire britannique de 1938, mais il s&rsquo;est retir\u00e9 afin d&rsquo;\u00e9tudier \u00e0 la facult\u00e9 de droit.<\/p>\n<p>Apr\u00e8s qu&rsquo;il eut pris sa retraite de l&rsquo;athl\u00e9tisme, Worrall a amorc\u00e9 une longue carri\u00e8re en administration du sport, devenant un membre influent du paysage sportif. Il a agi quatre fois comme Chef de mission d&rsquo;\u00c9quipe Canada aux Jeux olympiques (en tant qu&rsquo;adjoint en 1948 et en 1952, et comme chef de mission en 1956 et 1960) et ensuite, de 1961 \u00e0 1968, Worrall a occup\u00e9 le poste de pr\u00e9sident de l&rsquo;Association olympique canadienne. Nomm\u00e9 membre du Comit\u00e9 international olympique (CIO) en 1967 et membre honoraire en 1989, Worrall est devenu le premier Canadien \u00e0 se voir d\u00e9signer membre du Comit\u00e9 ex\u00e9cutif du CIO en 1974. Il a \u0153uvr\u00e9 au sein de plusieurs comit\u00e9s et commissions du CIO, notamment \u00e0 la l\u00e9gislation (1968-72) et au juridique (1984-85). Worrall \u00e9tant reconnu pour son bon jugement, quand est venu le moment d&rsquo;y aller d&rsquo;une refonte de la Charte olympique, le pr\u00e9sident du CIO Juan Samaranch l&rsquo;a mis \u00e0 la t\u00eate de la Commission de 1982 \u00e0 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Un homme d\u2019influence et inspirant,\u00a0Worrall\u00a0s&rsquo;est activement impliqu\u00e9 au sein de\u00a0l&rsquo;Union amateur d&rsquo;athl\u00e9tisme du Canada, du Conseil consultatif des sports canadiens, de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des sports du Canada, ainsi que du Conseil consultatif national de la condition physique et du sport amateur. Il a jou\u00e9 des r\u00f4les cl\u00e9s au sein des comit\u00e9s de candidature et comit\u00e9s\u00a0organisateurs\u00a0pour les Jeux de\u00a0Montr\u00e9al en 1976\u00a0et\u00a0ceux de Calgary en 1988.\u00a0L&rsquo;autobiographie de\u00a0Worrall,\u00a0intitul\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0<em>My Olympic Journey: Sixty Years with Canadian Sport and the Olympic Games<\/em> \u00bb,\u00a0a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9e en 2000. Au moment de sa mort en octobre 2011, Worrall \u00e9tait le doyen des Olympiens canadiens, \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 97 ans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quand James Worrall a port\u00e9 le drapeau du Canada \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie d&rsquo;ouverture des Jeux olympiques de 1936 \u00e0 Berlin, ce n&rsquo;\u00e9tait l\u00e0 que le d\u00e9but d&rsquo;une longue s\u00e9rie de contributions au sport de haut niveau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83203,"template":"","tags":[415984548,415986848,1104411,682163111,6563264],"hof-categories":[682162654],"year-inducted":[682162684],"gender":[42123],"season":[],"sport":[48770],"game":[9241378],"team":[],"event":[181822627],"province":[],"class_list":["post-19368","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-athletisme","tag-berlin-1936","tag-equipe-canada","tag-james-morrall","tag-porte-drapeau","hof-categories-batisseure","year-inducted-682162684","gender-masculin","sport-athletisme","game-1936-berlin","event-haies-400-m-hommes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/coc_men_ph_1340x754.png","category_names":[],"tag_names":["Athl\u00e9tisme","berlin 1936","\u00c9quipe canada","James Morrall","porte-drapeau"],"sport_names":[342],"game_names":["Berlin 1936"],"season_names":[],"team_names":[],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec","athlete_birthplace":"Bury, UK","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"June 23, 1914","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/19368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/19368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159513,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/19368\/revisions\/159513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}