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Olympic Games in Paris

The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are generating great moments of athletic excellence and sportsmanship. They are also fostering an exciting international atmosphere, exemplified by the gathering of participants and graduates of the M.A. Olympic Studies program. This impressive circle has led to numerous professional and private...

Prof. Wassong was interviewed by the Swiss radio station SRF

Prof. Wassong was interviewed by the Swiss radio station SRF for a report on the American gymnast Simone Biles, who is now considered the GOAT – Greatest of All Time – in her sport. He reports on sports legends since antiquity and which factors contribute to this status in addition to purely sporting achievements. Find the full...

Damaris Young becomes IOC member

We are proud to congratulate our alumna Damaris Young Aranda (PAN) for being elected a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC´s 142nd Session in Paris.

Damaris was elected in connection with her role as the President of the National Olympic Committee of Panama. She graduated from the international study...

4th International Colloquium of Olympic Studies and Research Centres

Representatives from the Institute of Sport History at the German Sports University Cologne attended the 4th International Colloquium of Olympic Studies and Research Centres, organized by the The Olympic Studies Centre in Besançon.

More than 20 Olympic Studies Centres were present from around the world to talk about...

16th International Symposium for Olympic and Paralympic Research

The M.A. Olympic Studies was well represented at the 16^th International Symposium for Olympic and Paralympic Research which took place from July 20 – 21. It was hosted by the International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) of Western University, Canda. The place of the venue was the University of France-Comté, located in...

The Story of the Rings

In his functions as president of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee and member of the IOC Olympic Education Commission, Stephan Wassong was invited for an interview by a well-known German radio station (Südwestrundfunk/SWR). Stephan Wassong was asked to talk about the origins of the Olympic rings, Pierre de...

Prof. Kay Schiller Guest at the Olympic Studies Centre

Kay Schiller, Professor of Modern European History at Durham University (UK), visited the German Sport University Cologne as a guest of the Institute of Sport History / Olympic Studies Centre from 1st to 4th of July 2024. During his stay, Prof. Stiller did research on the Maccabi Sports Movement at the Central Library for Sport...

Marloes Ekkelboom wins 'Best Paper Award' at international conference

Marloes Ekkelboom, PhD student and staff member, was awarded the 'Best Paper Award' at the seventh annual conference on sport and discrimination at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besancon, France, for her presentation on 'Female Athlete Activism' and social justice advocacy at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This event...

Olympic Seminar of the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Bahrain.

The IOA has organized several workshops on Olympic Studies in collaboration with the Bahrain Olympic Committee respectively its National Olympic Academy (BOA). While our colleague from the M.A. Olympic Studies Dr. Emilio Fernández Peña taught on the IOA/BOA programme in April, Stephan Wassong delivered a series of lectures...

Olympism and Olympic Education Book

Explore the multifaceted dimensions of Olympism and Olympic Education in the latest publication edited by Alberto Reinaldo Reppold Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Stephan Wassong (German Sport University Cologne).

The book covers a wide range of topics on Olympism such as the "Institutional...