25 years of ISOH – Happy Birthday!
IOC Doyen Dick Pound was typically forthright at the celebrations of our 25th anniversary. He told members that the IOC lost “moral authority” by refusing to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from Rio. […]
Homosexuality and the Olympic Movement
Sport remains “one of the last bastions of cultural and institutional homophobia” in Western societies, despite the advances made since the birth of the gay rights movement. […]
Olympic champion Emil Voigt in the Hall of Fame
Voigt was inducted into England Athletics Hall of Fame on 17th October 2015 in Birmingham. It was a well-deserved acknowledgement of a unique athlete and his brilliant career in the early 1900s. […]
ISOH Election Results(2016 – 2020)
The results of the election for the new Executive Committee for the period 2016 – 2020 are now available.
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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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kitei Son and Spiridon Louis – Political Dimensions of the 1936 Marathon in Berlin
On the 15th of November 2002 the Olympic marathon champion of 1936, Kitei SON, died in Korea at the age of […]
“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 […]
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