Crowds welcome the Flame
A huge weekend crowd has welcomed the Olympic Flame to the port of Volos where the cauldron was lit by double Olympic rowing medallist Vasilios Polymeros. He won bronze at Athens 2004 in men’s lightweight double sculls and was also silver medallist at Beijing 2008. […]
Kaklamanakis Carries the Flame
The Olympic Flame returned briefly to Athens recalling memories of the Games twenty years ago when windsurfer Nikos Kaklamanakis lit the Olympic Flame. In the shadow of the stadium where the Ceremony had taken place, Kaklamanakis lit a much smaller cauldron in […]
Freedom of Olympia Awards
Ancient Olympia has conferred its greatest award on two legendary Olympic Champions to mark the 2800th anniversary of the first recorded Olympic Games of ancient times. Ioannis Melissanidis won gold in the men’s floor exercise at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “It is an extra honour […]
IOA Students Join Torch Relay
Students from the International Olympic Academy (IOA) Masters in Olympic Studies programme have taken the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay. They were visibly moved as they joined IOA Dean and ISOH Committee member Kostas Georgiadis for a leg of the Relay in the town of Zacharo […]
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