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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 32/No. 1 – 2024
May 1, 2024Paris is preparing for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in 2024. Once again, they will surely be superlative,
the river Seine meandering through Paris will play a role, the programme will be innovative and cultural events will be diverse and heterogeneous. We, the Olympic […]Posted In: Recent Journals -
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 3 – 2023
December 1, 2023Anniversaries should be celebrated; people want to remember what has happened and engage in a culture of remembrance. As historians, we are particularly fond of doing this and like to note that 100 years ago, the first Winter Olympics took place in the winter sports destination of […]
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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 2 – 2023
September 25, 2023MONUMENTS OF OLYMPIC CULTURE
ISOH President Christian Wacker examines Olympic Heritage and asks How can Olympic monuments be protected and preserved for posterity? In SPORT FOR A WORLD OF PEACE, Richard Pound offers a personal reflection on the Olympic Congress […]Posted In: Recent Journals -
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 1 – 2023
May 11, 2023A SMILE FOR ETERNITY
ISOH President Christian Wacker remembers Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known as Pele, who never competed in the Olympics but carried the Olympic Flame in Rio de Janeiro with great emotion and was a standard bearer for all that is best in sport. […]Posted In: Recent Journals
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An Olympic Vote for Moscow 50 Years Ago
October 22, 2024This week in Vienna 50 years ago, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Moscow to host the 1980 Olympics. Judged in purely sporting terms it was a decision which seemed entirely justified. Yet political and military developments in the […]
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Beamed Across the World: Tokyo 64 – The First “TV” Olympics
October 9, 2024On a clear afternoon in Tokyo 60 years ago, the Olympic Flame burned to set in motion Games that were symbolic in many ways. For the host nation, it represented a new chapter after the horrors of the second world war and this was even […]
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Athens 20 Years After
September 24, 2024The 2004 Greek Olympic and Paralympic teams and the side which won the 2004 UEFA European Championship have been reunited at “Athens 20 years after “a celebratory event at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens which also honoured the competitors at Paris 2024. […]
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The Race for the IOC Presidency Begins
September 18, 2024Two double Olympic gold medallists are among the seven candidates for President confirmed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the election of a successor to Thomas Bach. Bach confirmed during the Paris Olympics that he planned to stand down next […]
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