21st World Olympic Collectors Fair

For only the second time since the IOC created and organized this event in the 1990s in Lausanne, Switzerland, the 21st World Olympic Collectors Fair was held in the United States. […]

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Searching for Fritzi

Mike Ramsey learned German during the war listening to Adolf Hitler’s speeches. His dad had bought him a short wave radio and he got interested in figuring out what the lunatic Führer was saying. […]

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Africa’s First Encounter With The Olympic Games In … 1904

South Africa’s official participation in the Olympic Games spans a period from 1908 until 1960, and again from […]

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Asia’s First Female Olympian – Kinue Hitomi

The Meiji Revolution of 1868 brought sweeping changes to the fabric of Japanese life, but it was not until some fifty years later that these […]

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