Blogs about: De Coubertin
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Is it the winning and not the taking part?
wrote 1 month ago: Perhaps it is the drum like rhythm of the falling water that allows thoughts the freedom to float by … more →
Modern Pentathlon
wrote 10 months ago: The modern pentathlon, first held at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, was invented by the founde … more →
London 2012: Can future Olympic games get any better?
wrote 10 months ago: Antarctica – the final link in the chain As one of the most succesful games draws to a close, … more →
True Olympic spirit
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wrote 10 months ago: As the Olympics enter day seven, it is a case of so far, so good on all counts. With blanket media c … more →
Bring back artists' medals: The Olympics was never supposed to be just about sport
wrote 10 months ago: ONE hundred years ago, the first Olympic medals were awarded for cultural achievement. In the summer … more →
Olympism
wrote 10 months ago: Under normal circumstances I’d splutter into my morning cup of tea. Have Dr Who and Twenty Twe … more →
Thank you Lord Desborough
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wrote 10 months ago: And so the 2012 games are finally here. When it’s all over in a couple of weeks the country wi … more →
Olympic fever!
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wrote 10 months ago: The girls in the office (including me, although I’m really too old to be seen as one of them!) … more →
Well, Here's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into, Stanley
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wrote 1 year ago: “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing” (Henry Russell ‘Red’ Sanders) “The important thing i … more →
The Olympic Torch: On the other hand...
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wrote 1 year ago: Last Friday I wrote a post criticising the modern Olympics’ pseudo-classical torch lighting ce … more →
Oh sport you are peace
wrote 1 year ago: Ode to Sport by Pierre de Coubertin “Oh sport, you are peace”, these words stand at the … more →
Reaching for My Revolver
wrote 1 year ago: Will Gompertz on the Today programme this morning said that the arts has “always been embedded in th … more →
The Prime Minister, Mr. George Pompidou
wrote 4 years ago: “FRANCE is grateful to your Committee” … more →
Pierre de Coubertin
wrote 4 years ago: “Grenoble will ever remain a significant memory for you” … more →
Art Olympics
wrote 4 years ago: Well shiver my timbers and call me a dumbbell. The other day I talked about “Video Gaming as a … more →
