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06/17/2026

Congratulations to Morocco's Mouad Benouzekri, winner of the second ISOH Olympic History Youth Competition presented in partnership with International Olympic Academy. Mouad's poster design celebrates the earliest Olympics athletes from Comité National Olympique Marocain and included a QR code enabling viewers to dive further into Morocco's rich Olympic history online at https://tangerine-beijinho-c74c6f.netlify.app/ -- for more details about the competition read Philip's report at https://isoh.org/moroccos-olympic-heritage-wins-isoh-poster-prize/ . We appreciate ISOH's Tolga, Bulatova, last year's winner Alex, and everyone who contributed to this year's competition with 40 entries from 35 NOCs.

06/15/2026

For the ISOH 2026 Olympics History Youth Competition, presented with International Olympic Academy, participants from 11 European NOCs created 12 posters celebrating the first Olympians of their homeland. We're happy to round out our posts of all 40 entries (from 35 NOCs) with the entries from Albania, Armenia, Olympic Team Austria, Hrvatski olimpijski odbor, Danmark til OL, საქართველოს ეროვნული ოლიმპიური კომიტეტი/Georgian National Olympic Committee, Team Hungary, CONI, Latvijas Olimpiskā Komiteja, Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi and НОК України та олімпійська команда/NOC of Ukraine and the Olympic Team. Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this year-two initiative, with winners to be announced this week. Stay tuned!

06/15/2026

For the ISOH 2026 Olympics History Youth Competition in progress at International Olympic Academy, participants from eight Asia NOCs created 10 posters celebrating their nation's earliest Olympians. We enthusiastically honor their creativity, presenting here the entries from Bahrain Olympic Committee, Bangladesh Olympic Association, Chinese Olympic Committee, Lebanese Olympic Committee, Nepal Olympic Committee, Pakistan Olympic Association, 대한체육회 Korean Sport & Olympic Committee-KSOC and Singapore National Olympic Council. Please view our other posts for a peek at all 40 entries from 35 NOCs, with winners to be announced soon!

06/14/2026

Continuing our exploration of entries for the Olympics History Youth Poster Competition, here are the 11 creations representing nine national Olympic committees of the Americas including Antigua and Barbuda National Olympic Committee, The Barbados Olympic Association Inc., Time Brasil, Comité Olímpico Nacional de Costa Rica - CONCRC, Comité Olímpico Colombiano, Comité Olímpico Guatemalteco, Comité Olympique Haïtien, Team TTO and Team USA.

06/13/2026

Through a collaboration with International Olympic Academy and ISOH, the Olympics History Youth Poster Competition is underway at the 66th Session for Young Olympic Ambassadors in ancient Olympia, Greece. Presented with this post: Seven entries from young professionals representing ANOC Olympic committees including Comité Olímpico Angolano, Comité Olímpico Cabo-verdiano, CNOSM - Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Mali, Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, Comité National Olympique Tunisien - CNOT, Uganda Olympic Committee and Zimbabwe Olympic Committee. We'll share more of the 40 entries from 35 NOCs during the awards ceremony coming mid-June. Special thanks to Tolga, Bulatova, Philip, Alex (co-desiner of last year's winning entry) and others from IOA and ISOH making possible this poster initiative in its second year.

06/12/2026

While memories of MilanoCortina2026 may still be fresh, some of them will be archived in perpetuity thanks to Olympics athletes -- including Equipe de France Olympique et Paralympique ski mountaineering champion Emily Harrop -- who recently donated special gear to The Olympic Museum - Le Musée Olympique and met with fans, as reported by Philip for ISOH. https://isoh.org/olympic-museum-to-receive-mementos-from-champions/

06/11/2026

When it was Melbourne's turn to host the 1956 Summer Olympics, Australia's health minister proved himself one of history's biggest naysayers, denying international equestrians from transporting their rides to the quarantined nation. Stockholm ultimately saved the day, with Swedish Olympic officials hosting the competition that opened 70 years ago this week, also teeing up a special torch relay and enabling delivery of the flame to a Games venue for the first time by a woman. Read of all this and more thanks to ISOH Journal's Philip Barker via this link:

A cache of rarely seen colour photographs from a private collection depicts the Olympic equestrian competitions exactly 70 years ago. They were held in Stockholm’s historic stadium in June 1956. T…

05/28/2026

On this Throwback Thursday, ISOH Journal's Philip Barker takes readers to the '86 launch of Sport Aid featuring incredible music from Tears for Fears and Vangelis with a cameo by the legendary Carl Lewis.

Sudanese middle distance runner Omer Khalifa was an Olympic finalist at the 1984 Olympics over 1500m and also competed in the 1988 Seoul Games but he is best known for another run he undertook 40 …

05/28/2026

More details on the poster competition with International Olympic Academy currently underway.

ISOH is pleased to announce that the poster competition at the International Olympic Academy (IOA) New Young Ambassadors Session is to return for a second year. The competition is open to all part…

05/13/2026

The International Table Tennis Federation has 100 reasons to celebrate in 2026, and ISOH Journal Editor Philip Barker reported on their centennial exhibition for this Olympics sport. https://bit.ly/TableTennis100