Slovakia’s oldest Olympic champion Ján Zachara dies at 96
Slovakia’s oldest Olympic gold medallist Ján Zachara has died at the age of 96. He won the featherweight boxing gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Zachara was born on August 8th, 1928 in what was then Czechoslovakia. […]
Coubertin’s Olympic Farewell in 1925
A hundred years ago on New Year’s Day 1925, Baron Pierre de Coubertin celebrated his 62nd birthday. It was to be a significant one for him because he had decided to stand down as International Olympic Committee President (IOC) after over a quarter of a century at the […]
Greek documentary “Agones” now available on Olympic Channel
A landmark documentary on the Olympic Games made for Greek Television (ERT) has now been made available for streaming on the Olympic Channel. “Agones” was made in 2021 to commemorate the 125th […]
Historic discovery of Jesse Owens records
The original sheets used by judges to record the 1936 Olympic long jump competition won by Jesse Owens have been re-discovered after almost 90 years. The original handwritten sheets were filled in and signed by competition officials in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. […]
Borşa, the lost Olympic ski resort of the Carpathians
1944 was an Olympic year but the Games themselves never took place. The cruel years of the Second World War were perhaps the darkest in world history. The conflict left millions dead and many more seriously. wounded. The lives of many […]
2026 Torch Relay to Be ‘Greatest Journey’
The Olympic Flame for Milan Cortina 2026 is set to cross Italy in a 63-day journey, organisers revealed this week.
“This ‘Greatest Journey’ is the moment when Milano Cortina 2026 will embrace our country, uniting Italy in a celebration of national pride.” claimed […]
ISOH Launches Open Access Program with oldest known volume on the Ancient Olympic Games
We are delighted to launch our ‘open access’ in the most appropriate way possible with the oldest known volume on the history of the ancient Olympics which has […]
2024 ISOH General Assembly
The 2024 ISOH General Assembly is set to begin next Saturday (30th November) at 1400h CET. This year’s meeting will be conducted Online with members of the society welcome to attend. All members should have received an email with details of how to log from ISOH Secretary […]
An Olympic Vote for Moscow 50 Years Ago
This week in Vienna 50 years ago, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Moscow to host the 1980 Olympics. Judged in purely sporting terms it was a decision which seemed entirely justified. Yet political and military developments in the […]
Beamed Across the World: Tokyo 64 – The First “TV” Olympics
On a clear afternoon in Tokyo 60 years ago, the Olympic Flame burned to set in motion Games that were symbolic in many ways. For the host nation, it represented a new chapter after the horrors of the second world war and this was even […]
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