From the Commonwealth Games to the Olympics – Introducing the Victory Podium
90 years ago, the Games in Los Angeles were the first summer Olympics to feature a medal podium. The presentation of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals had become standard practice, but in early Olympic Games they […]
London’s Olympic Stadium is 10 years old
London’s Olympic Stadium is 10 years old. The London Stadium, now the home of FA Premier League side West Ham United was the third in the same city to be the centrepiece of an Olympic Games, a feat which will be emulated by Paris in 2024. The stadium was to have a capacity of 80,000. […]
What A Beautiful Horizon – Barcelona!
The Montjuic stadium in Barcelona remains an impressive presence above the city thirty years after the Olympics which opened this week in 1992. In fact, the facade of the stadium was very much older, the work of architect Pere Domènech i Roura. It had originally been built in 1927 […]
Igniting the Games by David Miller
ISOH member David Miller’s new book represents the first full length assessment of Thomas Bach’s leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and provides a fascinating chronicle on nine years in which “Bach sustained IOC equilibrium through many crises.” […]
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