In 2025, the international sports community celebrates a historic milestone — 100 years since the first International Workers’ Olympiad. What began in 1925 in Frankfurt as a movement for inclusion, equality, and solidarity in sport has evolved into today’s CSIT World Sports Games, carrying the same spirit into the modern era.

The Confédération Sportive Internationale Travailliste et Amateur (CSIT), founded in Belgium in 1913, was created to promote sports for workers and amateurs worldwide. Its legacy has continued for over a century, promoting values of unity, fair play, and social progress through sport.

To commemorate this centennial, the German CSIT member RKB Solidarität Deutschland 1896 Solidaritätsjugend hosted a grand celebration in Neu-Isenburg Sports Park in October 2025. The festival, aptly named SPORTOPIA, reflected both a look back at history and a vision for the future. The location itself carried symbolic weight — just a few kilometres from Frankfurt’s Waldstadion (now Deutsche Bank Park), where the first Workers’ Olympiad took place in 1925.

Visitors and athletes alike felt a unique blend of remembrance and renewal. The same questions that motivated workers’ sports a century ago still resonate today:
Who does sport belong to? What does sport stand for? And what can sport achieve in society?

From Frankfurt 1925 to Loutraki 2025 — where the eighth edition of the CSIT World Sports Games was held — the movement continues to embody the belief that sport is for everyone, transcending boundaries of class, nationality, and era.