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How will Rio 2016 preserve the Olympic spirit of trying to bring peace to the world?

  • The Big Read

The great Jesse Owens embodied the Olympic ideal with his deeds at the stadium but long after his sporting career was over, he spoke in unforgettable fashion at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. In the forty years since then, few have come closer to encapsulating the Olympic spirit.

backing to a Peace and Sport movement , founded by Joël Bouzou, an Olympic bronze medallist in modern pentathlon


Olympic and Paralympic mascots feature in last batch of Rio 2016 stamps

  • Collecting and Heritage News

The third and final batch of Rio 2016 commemorative postal stamps has been launched, featuring Olympic and Paralympic mascots, Vinicius and Tom.

based.They feature the sports of athletics, beach volleyball, equestrian, gymnastics, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon


Budapest 2024 give key role to Olympic gold medallist as Bach arrives in Hungarian capital

  • Paris 2024

Sydney 2000 gold medallist Ágnes Kovács is set to play leading role in Budapest's bid to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics after being appointed head of its Athletes' Commission.

capital's campaign.It has already been announced that Kovács will be joined by Attila Mizsér, a modern pentathlon

Budapest 2024 Athletes' Commission ©YouTubeMizsér, a member of the Hungarian squad that won the modern pentathlon



The crises that have rocked world sport in 2015 are helping to speed the spread of better financial practice among leading International Federations

  • The Big Read

"Good governance and autonomy are strongly linked; they are two sides of the same coin.” This maxim, taken from the background document to the Olympic Agenda 2020 proposals approved almost exactly a year ago by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Monaco, encapsulates why 2015 has been such a disastrous year for advocates of maximum autonomy for sports organisations.

and is made available to all IGF member organisations but it is not shared with the public.”Modern pentathlon

: “We can confirm that [Union International de Pentathlon Moderne] does not publish its audited accounts


Isinbayeva to be allowed to stand for IOC Athletes' Commission at Rio 2016 even if Russia banned

  • Olympics

There will be 24 candidates standing for the four places on the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission at Rio 2016, including 11 gold medallists, it was announced today

shooting and table tennis and one each from badminton, basektball canoeing, cycling fencing, modern pentathlon

Chinese Taipei shooter Yi-chun Lin, the 2002 world trap winner; Egypt's Aya Medany, the 2008 Modern Pentathlon


National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan vice-president dies

  • OCA

Timur Dosymbetov, vice-president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Republic of Kazakhstan, has died.

the organisation.An Almaty citizen of origin, Dosymbetov was a member of the Soviet Union's modern pentathlon

Master of Sports title bestowed upon him.He also served as a head coach of the Kazakhstan modern pentathlon

of seven golds.Dossymbetov was also elected as an Executive Board member of the International Modern Pentathlon



World Championship silver medal winning pentathlete dies suddenly aged just 22

  • Modern Pentathlon

Russian modern pentathlete Alexander Kukarin, a silver medallist at this year's World Championships, has died suddenly aged just 22.

Modern Pentathlon Federation of Russia is sad to announce that on November 26, Russian pentathlete Alexander

Modern Pentathlon Federation of Russia expresses condolences to the families and friends of the athlete

did not find any signs that he had been attacked, while there were no suspicious signs," the Modern Pentathlon

A statement from the International Modern Pentathlon Union said that it was too early for comment."

We are still waiting for further information from the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation about the


South Korea's Jun wins men's title at UIPM Champion of Champions

  • Modern Pentathlon

South Korea’s Woongtae Jun secured the men’s title at the season-ending International Modern Pentathlon

Champions eventAugust 2015: Consistent Schoneborn and Schleu claim women's relay gold for Germany at Modern Pentathlon



Record delegation take part in World Modern Pentathlon Coaches Conference

  • Modern Pentathlon

Pentathlon GB’s performance director Jan Bartu was one of several speakers at the annual World Modern

Pentathlon Coaches Conference which took place in Manchester from November 7 to 8.

“We have managed to move the bar up again this year and I’m hopeful the International Modern Pentathlon

Union (UIPM) will take this event forward, so it is not only driven by Pentathlon GB but the UIPM as

now it is time to take it to another level.”In addition to hearing from coaches involved in modern pentathlon

conference.Psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters held a question and answer session during the conference ©GB Pentathlon

when jumping and discussed techniques on getting to know an unfamiliar horse.The topics of modern pentathlon


Tymoshchenko and Asadauskaite named modern pentathlon athletes of the year during UIPM Congress

  • Modern Pentathlon

Ukraine's world champion Pavlo Tymoshchenko was named International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) men's

UIPM President Klaus Schormann, in which motions designed to modernise the way the UIPM manages modern pentathlon

clear understanding that change is a certainty, and with a total commitment by all the family, modern pentathlon

two-week development camp in Burkina FasoSeptember 2015: Fairplex to host four American-legs of Modern Pentathlon

World Cup from 2017August 2015: Olympic gold medallist Asadauskaite comes out on top at Modern Pentathlon

title and Rio 2016 spotJune 2015: Asadauskaitė earns chance to defend Olympic title after modern pentathlon