Olympics on Stamps

Host cities for Summer and Winter Olympic Games City Country Year Continent Summer Winter Openingceremony Closingceremony Athens  Greece 1896 Europe I 6 April 1896 15 April 1896 Paris  France 1900 II 14 May 1900 28 October 1900 St. Louis  United States 1904 North America III 1 July 1904 23 November 1904 London  United Kingdom 1908 Europe IV 27 April 1908 31 October 1908 Stockholm  Sweden 1912 V 6 July 1912 22 July 1912 Berlin  Germany 1916 VI Cancelled due to WWI Antwerp  Belgium 1920 VII 14 August 1920 12 September 1920 Chamonix  France 1924 I 25 January 1924 5 February 1924...

No one knows exactly when it started, tho definitely it occurred in Olympia, in the Southwestern part of Greece.             Legend has it that Heracles with his four brothers came to Olympia and ran a "foot race" which was the 1st Ancient Olympic Game. Heracles was the 1st Champion. Possibly in 776 B.C. From then on up to 393 A.D. The Ancient Olympic Games were held every 4 years between representatives from Grecian city states. It was not purely athletic, but as well as a religious festival and cultural contests. The athletes had to undergo a 10-month...

8th Olympic Winter Games Host City - Squaw Valley, California Stadium - Blyth Arena It is worth mentioning... Bobsled was not on the Winter Olympic program for the first time. ********************************************************************************************************************************************** Central African Republic Jean Vuarnet - France Issued: 1994 Gold - Downhill Ski ******************************************************************************************************************************************************     Ecuador Ski Jumping Issued: 1966 ********************************************************************************************************************************************** Equatorial Guinea Issued: 1975 ****************************************************************************************************************************************************** Fujairah Issued: 1972 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Haiti Issued: 1960 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Sharjah Issued: 1971 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Togo Issued: 2004, 1960 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Yemen Issued: 1968 ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Subscribe to this blog's RSS feed by copying and pasting this URL into a feed reader i.e. Feedreader, Feedly, Digg, etc:  https://stampphenom.com/blogs/olympics-on-stamps.atom...

16th Olympic Summer Games Host City - Melbourne, Australia Stadium - Melbourne Cricket Ground It is worth mentioning... Alain Mimoun French runner who lost three times over favorite Czech Emil Zátopek cut his losing streaks to win the marathon. His rival Zátopek finish sixth. Bill Russell and K.C. Jones American basketball players scored twice as many points as their opponents and scoring at least 30 points in each of their games. ********************************************************************************************************************************************** Ajman Laszlo Papp - Hungary Issued: 1971 Gold - Light Middleweight Boxing ******************************************************************************************************************************************************     Australia Arms of the City of Melbourne, Olympic Rings & Melbourne, Australia Vista Issued: 1956 ********************************************************************************************************************************************** Czechoslovakia Olympic...

7th Olympic Winter GamesHost City - Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyStadium - Stadio Olimpico Del Ghiaccio It is worth mentioning...- Pavel Kolchin from USSR was the first non-Scandinavian Olympian to win a medal in cross-country skiing.  - Madeleine Berthod from Switzerland won the gold medal in the downhill skiing event by 4.7 seconds on the day of her birthday. - American Tenley Albright American skater and surgeon won a gold medal in ladies figure skating singles event. In 2015, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.- Hayes Alan Jenkins also an American skater led the Americans in the figure skating event.- Toni Sailer became Austria's first Alpine skier to win three...