“No Excuses” – American Hurdler Glenn Davis
In the hot, dry summer of 1952, Barberton, Ohio, revealed itself to an orphaned boy as a tough, honest city; a show-me place where […]
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 28/No. 1 – 2020
With the lighting of the Olympic flame on 12th March, the countdown to the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo has begun. Philip Barker reports from the ceremony in Ancient Olympia. There have been doubts over the celebration of the Games before. In 1916, 1940 and 1944, neither Summer nor Winter Games […]
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 27/No. 3 – 2019
With the opening of Tokyo’s New National Stadium in December, the final stage of the countdown to the beginning of the XXXII Olympic Games on 24 July 2020 has started. Never has a city looked “as well prepared for the Games as Tokyo at this point in time”, said IOC President Thomas Bach after the last meeting […]
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 27/No. 2 – 2019
The focus of the last Journal was the first Olympic Congress, which on 23 June 1894 decided to revive the Olympic Games. They set up an International Olympic Committee to organise them. Now, 125 years on, the new Olympic House has opened and we offer an introduction of the new building in this issue. […]
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