NICHOLAS WOLAVER is an Atlanta-based ISOH lifetime member with over 25 years of public relations experience as a senior counselor specializing in media relations and crisis response. In 2016, his agency NEW’s Public Relations provided pro-bono services to establish @ISOHSocial accounts in Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter (now X).
Since 2016, Wolaver processed most inbound ISOH media requests. Wolaver writes about the Games via the website Olympic Rings And Other Things, and he contributes film or book reviews to the Journal of Olympic History. He was credentialed by the USOPC to report from PyeongChang, Tokyo and Beijing and the 2023 Pan American Games as well as U.S. Olympic Trials or several U.S. national championship events since 2012.
Wolaver’s intro to the Olympic Movement and PR came through volunteering with U.S. Olympic Festival ’89 in Oklahoma, for which his idea inspired the U.S. Postal Service to create a Festival program of sport-themed stamp cancellations. He worked at four other USOFs before joining the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games as an Olympic Village Housing Manager in 1996. Paris 2024 marked his 12th in person Olympiad. Wolaver is also active in the Olympic memorabilia scene.
Wolaver graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn. His Olympic history areas of interest include Torch Relays and the Cultural Olympiad as well as his ongoing research of opening and closing ceremony performers since 1976.