David Miller’s new book Touching the Heart
ISOH member David Miller’s latest book Touching the Hear is a personal selection of 50 of the biggest sporting names of the last century. It will benefit the Starlight Foundation, a charity which helps seriously ill children in Great Britain. Miller, previously a biographer of Seb Coe, […]
ISOH New Branding Revealed
The International Society of Olympic Historians has been rebranded. To learn more about how the new design came about and what the various elements of the branding signify, please view this short video. […]
Three Lifetime Awards mark 30th anniversary
ISOH has celebrated its 30th anniversary by presenting three lifetime achievement awards. The gathering was held at the Foundation Coubertin at St. Remy Les Chevreuses on the outskirts of Paris. This was the family seat of the Coubertin family and appropriately it was attended […]
Fair Stood the Wind For Paris
That ISOH should celebrate its 30th anniversary in Paris is appropriate. It is a city which can lay claim to some of the richest Olympic heritage in the world. It is the home city of Pierre de Coubertin, born at number 20 Rue Oudinot, in the seventh arrondissement on New Year’s […]
The first “Quarantine” Games
Quarantine and secure “bubbles” seem certain to remain part of the Olympic world until at least after the 2022 Winter Olympics. The arrangements for Beijing may well be even stricter than those in Tokyo. Yet quarantine of a different kind has had a major impact on the Olympics before. […]
The International Olympic Academy reopens on its 60th birthday
Thomas Bach described the International Olympic Academy as “the bridge that connects us to our past and carries the Olympic spirit into the future,” as he cut the ribbon to formally re-open the buildings this week after extensive renovations. Bach first visited […]
Fast plane to China, Bejing’s torch on its way
The Olympic Flame has been formally entrusted to Beijing in a ceremony at the historic Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens which was held with very strict security after events at the lighting ceremony, when human rights protesters waved banners and shouted slogans in the […]
Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame lit at Ancient Olympia
The Olympic Flame has been lit for Beijing 2022 amid human rights protests at the archaeological site in Olympia during the kindling ceremony. Three protesters were arrested after unveiling a Tibetan flag and a banner criticising the Chinese government policy towards minorities. […]
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