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Olympics on Stamps

The first Olympic Games of the modern era were staged in Athens,Greece from 6 to 15 April 1896. The driving force behind their revival was Pierre de Fredi, Baron de Coubertin, who was born in Paris in 1863. He believed in the Greek athletic ideal of perfection of mind and body, and his energies were devoted to achieving his dream of reintroducing the Olympic Games, which had been staged for more than a thousand years before their prohibition in AD 394.

In 1889 de Courertin was commissioned by the French government to form a universal sports association and he visited other European nations to gather information. He made public his views on 25 November 1892 at the Sorbonne in Paris. These led to the formation of the International Olympic Committe in 1894 and thence to the staging  of the Olympic Games., which were opened in Athens on Easter Monday 1896.

VENUES

1896 Athens   

1932 Los Angeles

1976 Montreal

1900 Paris

1936 Berlin

1980 Moscow

1904 St Louis

1948 London

1984 Los Angeles

1906 Athens*

1952 Helsinki

1988 Seoul

1908 London

1956 Melbourne

1992 Barcelona

1912 Stockholm

1960 Rome

1996 Atlanta

1920 Antwerp

1964 Tokyo

2000 Sydney

1924 Paris

1968 Mexico City

2004 Athens

1928 Amsterdam

1972 Munich

 

 * Intercalated Games held in1906 at Athens as the tenth anniversary celebrations of the 1896 Games.

 

XIX Olympic Games - Mexico City - 1968

SG # 569 (1968), Olympic Games, Mexico City

SG # 570 (1968), Olympic Games, Mexico City

 

XX Olympic Games - Munich - 1972

 

XXI Olympic Games - Montreal - 1976

 

XXII Olympic Games - Moscow - 1980

 

XXIII Olympic Games - Los Angeles - 1984

 

XXIV Olympic Games - Seoul - 1988 

 

XXIV Olympic Games - Barcelona - 1992

 

 

 

XXVI Olympic Games - Atlanta - 1996

 

XXVII Olympic Games - Sydney - 2000

 

 

XXVIII Olympic Games - Athens - 2004