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The next issue of the Journal of Olympic History will appear on 20 March. Starting this year, the editors will be Volker Kluge and Karl Lennartz, and it will be produced by the creAtiv agency.
- In the title story, Canada's Clifford Goldfbarb prepares for the London Olympics with a story from the first London Games in 1908. He writes about famed author Arthur Conan Doyle and his involvement "Dorando Affair", attempting to separate fact from fiction.
- IOC member Richard Pound extensively discusses the complicated China-problem that the IOC faced and how it was eventually solved in the 1970s.
- The IOC during World War II is discussed in a contribution from ISOH president Karl Lennartz.
- Vilmos Horváth writes about the oldest living Olympic Champion, the 98-year-old Hungarian water polo player Sándor Tarics, who also became known world-wide with this earthquake proof constructions.
- Olympic rowing competitions were supposed to be held at the 1896 Olympics, but they are generally assumed not to have been held. The diary of Berlin rower Berthold Küttner tell an interesting story the journey, stay and (lack of) rowing at these Olympics.
Other contributions include Andreas Höfer's review of four German exhibitions celebrating the 75th anniversary of the 1936 Berlin Games, while Ove Karlsson previews the centennial of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A report of the 2011 ISOH Meeting at St. Augustin is also included, with speaches from Bill Mallon and Thierry Terret. The series of IOC member biographies continues, now having reached its 10th episode.
The second issue of this year will appear shortly before the London Olympics, in July.
The final issue of the Journal of Olympic History in 2011 includes a total of six academic articles from various fields of Olympic studies. All of them offer interesting perspectives on subject matter that may be less familiar to some. The opening article by Luis Silva and Hans-Dieter Gerber reflects the tremendous research these two authors have carried out into the Arab Games and gives a very coherent and detailed overview of this very special sporting event. The other articles deal more specifically with the Olympic Games and encompass diverse perspectives:
- The Arab Games: Establishment and Role (1953-1965) by Luis Silva and Hans-Dieter Gerber
- Determinants of Participants and Success at the Earlier Modern Olympic Games by Gerard Kuper Elmer Sterken
- A “New Woman” and her Involuntary Youth by Volker Kluge
- Cold Brothers? The Relationship between North Korea and the Socialist Bloc in the Olympic Movement by Kim Mi-Suk and Robin Streppelhoff
- “Fire, When Great Festivals are Celebrated at the Stadium” – The “Olympic Flame” in Stockholm 1912 by Ansgar Molzberger
- Olympic Medals Amsterdam 1928 by L.M.J. Boegheim (translated by Th. Bijkerk)
- Number of Participants in Athens 1896 by Ture Widlund
The second issue of the Journal of Olympic History focuses on Asia, discussing among others:
* The bid for the 1940 Olympics, won by Tokyo, but then lost to Helsinki due the outbreak of war between Japan and China
* The Chinese bids for the 2000 and 2008 Olympics
* The Olympic dreams of Malaysia and Turkey
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