Category: Olympics
THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 3
To read Part 1 of this series click HERE and Part 2 HERE The Running Career Revived Violet...
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THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 2
To read the first part of this series click HERE Who was Violet Piercy? Helpfully Piercy’s...
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THE FORGOTTEN FIRST LADY:
Rediscovering Violet Piercy, Marathon Pioneer
Part 1
Introduction The story of a British woman called Violet Piercy running a marathon in 1926 has been...
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Ivor Montagu:
Table Tennis and Apartheid South Africa
Introduction Sport is closely linked to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, with the...
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The Unfinished ‘Amusement and Sports Park’ Project in Warsaw from 1921
the First Vision for an Olympic District in the Capital City of the Second Polish Republic?
Please cite this article as: Potrzuski, K. The Unfinished ‘Amusement and Sports Park’ Project in...
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Another Dibiasi, another phenomenon!
The story of Karl Dibiasi
Between 1964 and 1976, Klaus Dibiasi was one of the greatest divers in the World. Klaus always...
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‘Ghosts are Much of What Makes a Space a Place’:
Interpreting the Relics of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village through Art
Please cite this article as: Adams, I. ‘Ghosts are Much of What Makes a Space a Place’:...
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Gretel Bergmann
~An International Olympic Contender~
The ‘Bitter Awakening from the Wonderful Dream’ of Attending the Olympic Games
To read the earlier articles in this series by Lisa please click on the links below Part 1 –...
Read More![“And then we were Boycotted”<br>New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933] <br> Part 7](https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Marco-Part-7-Boycotted-627x376.jpg)
“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 7
The author would like to express thanks to Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images (taken from...
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Sports Migration during National Socialism:
Reasons and Research on the Emigration of Jewish Athletes from Germany after 1933
“Thousands have emigrated from our ranks in recent years, some have already become champions in a...
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A Neglected Austrian Lifter and Resistant: Franz Huhsar
The period following World War I, ending with the horror of World War II, was one of the most...
Read More![The Eternal Seconds of Italian Women’s Athletics:<br>The History of Gruppo Sportivo La Filotecnica [Milan, 1935-1943]](https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PP-banner-maker-3-627x376.jpg)
The Eternal Seconds of Italian Women’s Athletics:
The History of Gruppo Sportivo La Filotecnica [Milan, 1935-1943]
The author would like to express thanks to Lyana Calvesi for the images from Archivio personale...
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