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Tokyo 1940: A look back at the Olympic Games that never happened

  • The Big Read

When the Paralympic Games close a week from now in Rio, the Japanese flag will be raised and all eyes will look towards Tokyo. They were doing the same exactly 80 years ago when the Berlin Olympics of 1936 came to an end.

Ceremony was eventually scheduled for 3pm on Saturday, September 21, 1940.Fencing, wrestling and modern pentathlon




WOA hails "most successful" ever Olympians Reunion Centre at Rio 2016

  • Olympics

The World Olympians Association (WOA) has hailed its Rio 2016 edition of the Olympians Reunion Centre (ORC) as the most popular since the concept was first established at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

the shores of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas with World Rugby, World Masters Games, International Modern Pentathlon


David Owen: Juanito’s way - have we underestimated Samaranch the younger?

  • Inside the Blogs

Here’s a question for International Olympic Committee (IOC)-watchers in the interstice between Olympic and Paralympic Games: is it time to reassess Juan Antonio Samaranch? 

them.In early 2013, wrestling’s Olympic future was placed in extreme jeopardy after a vote that modern pentathlon

rearguard action widely credited to Samaranch, who is a vice-president of the International Modern Pentathlon