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Journal of Olympic History
1 December 2023

Anniversaries should be celebrated; people want to remember what has happened and engage in a culture of remembrance. As historians, we are particularly fond of doing this and like to note that 100 years ago, the first Winter Olympics took place in the winter sports destination of Chamonix. […]

Journal of Olympic History
20 September 2023

ISOH President Christian Wacker remembers Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known as Pele, who never competed in the Olympics but carried the Olympic Flame in Rio de Janeiro with great emotion and was a standard bearer for all that is best in sport. […]
ISOH President Christian Wacker examines Olympic Heritage and asks How can Olympic monuments be protected and preserved for posterity? Richard Pound offers a personal reflection on the Olympic Congress held in Varna 50 years ago. Stan Greenberg remembers […]

Journal of Olympic History
11 May 2023

ISOH President Christian Wacker remembers Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known as Pele, who never competed in the Olympics but carried the Olympic Flame in Rio de Janeiro with great emotion and was a standard bearer for all that is best in sport. […]

Journal of Olympic History
16 March 2022

The 24th Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 are history. IOC President Thomas Bach called them “truly exceptional” at the closing ceremony, which seemed to reflect the opinion of most of the athletes. […]

Journal of Olympic History
19 November 2021

The Olympic flame in Tokyo had hardly been extinguished when the flame for the XXIV Winter Olympiad in Beijing was ignited ten weeks later in Ancient Olympia. Philip Barker reports on both events in this issue, […]

Journal of Olympic History
28 July 2021

At this moment, as I write these words, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo – postponed by a year – are officially being opened. The Japanese hosts, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to adjust their […]

Journal of Olympic History
18 April 2021

Along with the start of the cherry blossom front, which brings the Japanese islands to bloom from the southwest to the northeast, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay began on 25 March with a year’s delay. […]

Journal of Olympic History
11 November 2020

The world has changed since the last edition of the Journal. Our fears have become reality as the spread of COVID-19 has forced the IOC and Japanese organisers to postpone the Tokyo Olympics by a year. […]

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