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Olympic Order for Richard Pound
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Coventry elected IOC President
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Emotional Tribute for Bach
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IOC Session opens in Olympia
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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 32/No. 3 – 2024
December 17, 2024For the first time, ISOH has joined Panathlon International, the Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC) and the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) at a gathering during an Olympic Games. The aim was to debate how these four long standing organisations could become stronger […]
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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 32/No. 2 – 2024
November 2, 2024A major milestone and groundbreaking achievement was celebrated at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris 2024. For the first time, female athletes were given the same number of places at the Games as the men. It has been a long road to get there. No women were allowed to take part at all in […]
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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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Olympic Order for Richard Pound
March 21, 2025Richard Pound, Honorary Member of the International Olympic Committee and ISOH Executive Committee representative has been invested with the Olympic Order as the IOC Session in Costa Navarino came to a close. He received the insignia from President […]
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Kirsty Coventry elected as IOC President
March 20, 2025Kirsty Coventry has been elected as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President after only one round of voting at the Session at Costa Navarino. 49 votes in the first round proved decisive for Coventry. Juan Antonio Samaranch received 28 […]
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Emotional Tribute From Afghanistan for Bach
March 20, 2025International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has received an emotional tribute from Afghan IOC member Samira Asghari at the IOC Session in Costa Navarino. It came after a proposal to make him Honorary Life President was tabled. […]
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IOC Session opens in Olympia
March 19, 2025Rain fell beneath leaden skies in Ancient Olympia as the 144th International Olympic Committee Session officially opened in a cavalcade of traditional Greek music and dance at the International Olympic Academy (IOA). It was appropriate that new Hellenic […]
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