A 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 […]

Paris 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 […]

Anniversaries 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 […]

MONUMENTS 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 […]