ISOH member wins best book prize 2023 at inaugural Olympic & Sports Literature Festival
ISOH Secretary General Markus Osterwalder’s two-volume history, Olympic Games – The Design, has won first prize as the best book in the inaugural AICO Festival of Olympic and Sports Literature. The competition was held during […]
New Translations of De Coubertin Memoirs
This week, new translations of de Coubertin’s Olympic memoirs are being published in Swahili and Hindi by the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC). This was a group founded in January 1975 to “perpetuate the entire intellectual work of Pierre de Coubertin and “spread his […]
Olympic Museum in Lausanne Celebrates 30 Years
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its opening with a special exhibition and other events held in the museum precincts. Visitors were invited to hit an anniversary piñata in the presence of Olympians, […]
Olympic Day is Celebrated
Olympic Day has been celebrated for the 75th year. It was in 1948 that the International Olympic Committee decided to formally adopt a “World Olympic Day at their session in St Moritz. It was decided that it should take place as close as possible to June 23, the day on which Baron Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival […]
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