Below you will find articles about the Olympic Games. Or click here to view stamps with the subject Olympic Games in the catalog.
Estonia 2020 Estonia became independent from Russia in 1918 and first competed as a nation at the VII Olympiad, the 1920 Summer Olympic Games held in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2020 Estonia issued a special pure silver stamp to celebrate the 100th anniversary...
Now the 21st football World Cup Championship is well under way let’s take a look at some stamps from the past celebrating the event. The winner of the first competition, held in 1930, was Uruguay. In 2005, 75 years after...
The above stamp was issued by Hungary in 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix for Formula 1 racing cars. As with so many stamps, there is a historical significance attached to that particular issue. In...
Where people work, mistakes are made, and the same applies to the design of stamps. So many stamps have been issued with design flaws or errors of other kinds that it has become a collecting field in itself. Here are a few examples of stamps where it is not...
The popularity of the sport of Association Football, more commonly known nowadays as football or soccer, grows and grows. Today the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament is the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world and...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXVI Olympiad were held in Atlanta in 1996. These games are also known as the Centennial Games because they took place exactly a century after the first modern Olympic Games in Greece in 1896. Atlanta...
Hendrikus Andreas (Hennie) Kuiper was active as a professional from 1973 to 1988. After that, he served as a team manager until 1996. His list of achievements is impressive: in 1972 he became Olympic Road Champion and in 1975 World Champion. Among other things, he won...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in Barcelona in 1992. The residence of the then IOC President J.A. Samaranch was chosen over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane, and Paris. The ceremonies and athletics took place in the Estadi Olimpic...
The skating version narrowly fell through in February. What is certain, however, is that the Fiets-elfstedentocht will be held on Whit Monday. The distance is 240 km, starting in Bolsward. This year, this 3-star NTFU tour celebrates its 100th anniversary...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in Seoul in 1988. The Seoul Games were a great success. After the three previous Games had each been hit by a major boycott, nearly 160 countries were present in Seoul...
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