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Pass the Flame, Unite the World
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Echoes of the Torch Relay
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Flame to Return to Corfu
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Olympic Flame of Thessaloniki
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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 3 – 2023
December 1, 2023Anniversaries 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 […]
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Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 2 – 2023
September 25, 2023MONUMENTS OF OLYMPIC CULTURE
ISOH President Christian Wacker examines Olympic Heritage and asks How can Olympic monuments be protected and preserved for posterity? In SPORT FOR A WORLD OF PEACE, Richard Pound offers a personal reflection on the Olympic Congress […]Posted In: Recent Journals -
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 31/No. 1 – 2023
May 11, 2023A SMILE FOR ETERNITY
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. […]Posted In: Recent Journals -
Journal of Olympic History – Vol. 30/No. 3 – 2022
December 28, 2022This is the last edition of our journal for 2022, a tumultuous year by any standards. The ISOH executive board wishes you a peaceful holiday period and hope you enjoy the contents of our magazine. In “JUBILEES, CELEBRATION AND REMEMBRANCE,”
ISOH President Christian […]Posted In: Recent Journals
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Pass the Flame, Unite the World
April 25, 2024The Olympic Flame is to be formally handed over to Paris at an evening Ceremony in Athens after its ten-day journey across Greece. The appearance of Nana Mouskouri to sing “La Marseillaise” and the Greek National Anthem is keenly awaited even though Mouskouri is to celebrate […]
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Echoes of the Torch Relay
April 24, 2024The Olympic Torch Relay provided another echo of the 2004 Games as it arrived in Alexandroupolis when Javelin thrower Kostas Gatsioudis lit a temporary Cauldron. Twenty years ago, he was the first runner to set in motion the Athens 2004 Torch Relay at Ancient Olympia. […]
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Flame to Return to Corfu
April 23, 2024The Olympic Flame is scheduled to return to Corfu on Wednesday, over 75 years after its first visit to the island en route for the 1948 London Games. Civil strife in Greece had made it impossible to take the Flame to Athens for the formal handover. Former Royal Navy Commander Bill […]
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The Olympic Flame of Thessaloniki
April 22, 2024The Olympic Flame reached Thessaloniki in the North of Greece, where Tasoula Kelesidou, double Olympic silver medallist in the women’s discus stood alongside Thessaloniki Mayor Stelios Angeloudis to ignite the cauldron on the beach. In the gathering dusk, the Relay had passed beneath […]
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