Decisions taken at the meeting of the ISOH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, in Ancient Olympia, 23rd July 2006

1. The minutes from the meeting of the Executive Committee in Sankt Augustin, on September 11, 2005, were approved.
2. The project that ISOH will publish the second volume of the proceedings of the ISHPES congress, held in September 2005, including more than 20 articles on various topics on the Olympic Movement and the Olympic History is in progress.
3. Karl Lennartz, David Wallechinsky and Tony Bijkerk presented the ISOH award to Dick Pound in Torino in the presence of Jacques Rogge, Thomas Bach and other IOC and ISOH members.
4. The 2007 calendar will have as subject: “Jubilees of the Olympic Movement”.
5. The special issue of the Journal about the Olympic Art Competition has been distributed to all the NOCs and to all the IOC members, with the assistance of the IOC Secretariat.
6. The Treasurer reported that he had sent reminders by the end of May 2006 to the members who had an e-mail account, and he had received answers and payments from most of them. He added that he was going to send more reminders to those who have not yet paid for 2004 and 2005 by the end of August. Five members who had not paid since 2003 were to be removed from membership, according to the ISOH Constitution.
7. The various ISOH Awards for 2006/2007 will be presented to:
   • the ISOH Award 2007 for outstanding service to the history of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games will be presented to Professor John Lucas and Professor David C. Young.
   • in the book category: to the Norwegian book: Olympiske Sommerleker — 1896-2004, by authors: ISOH member �ge Dalby, Jan Greve and Per Jorsett.
   • in the “article in the ISOH Journal category”: to Guy-Lyonel Loew, “Amateurism and the Olympic Movement: The Stakes of a Definition of Amateurism under the Light of the Case of Karl Schranz”, in JOH 13 (2005)1, p. 22-30.
   • in the category of articles not published in the ISOH Journal: to Ian Jobling's article, “The Last Time Australia was in Athens: The 1906 Olympic Games”, in Buschmann, J./Wassong, S. (Eds.), Langlauf durch die olympische Geschichte, Köln 2005, p. 81-104.
8. Karl Lennartz had developed some thoughts about assigning an ISOH medal — separate from the ISOH award — to three of four members every year, people who have rendered outstanding service to the history of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games, but who because of their age may not come to receiving the ISOH Award, although they could deserve it. All the members agreed to move on to the necessary arrangements for the design of the medal, which was decided to be presented to three members each year; one younger — under the age of 40 — and to two older members.
9. The ISOH Scholarship 2006: it was decided to add $1.000 to the already reserved sum of $5.000 for the Scholarship; because there were three candidates. Since all three candidates: Thomas Wiegand [GER], Heather Dichter [CAN] and Jan C. Rhode [GER] were promising students, it was decided to split the total amount of $6.000 up in three equal portions of $2.000 for each candidate; on the condition that they would all become ISOH members for at least three years.
10. Plans for 2006-2007:
    • IOC website: President Karl Lennartz and Secretary-General Tony Bijkerk have been working hard on making corrections in the historical contents of the IOC website; they were invited for this by Philippe Blanchard, head of the Department for Information Management.
    • History of the Olympic Games: President Karl Lennartz suggested that because there exist no official history of the Olympic Games, reflecting the latest point of research, ISOH should be the editor of a re-edition of the work of Volker Kluge, translated into English, enhanced by photos and a list with the medal winners. The Secretary General suggested splitting the whole work into two big volumes, one on the Summer Olympic Games and this to be ready by the Beijing 2008 Olympics and one on the Winter Olympic Games and that to be ready by the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The decision on this matter will be taken later. This suggestion to be studied for financial possibilities.
11. Karl Lennartz referred to the need of a CD-ROM to be made, which should include all the copies of the ISOH Journal during the 15 years that it has been published.

Anthony Th. Bijkerk
Secretary-General of ISOH