WELCOME TO YOUR REFRESHED NEWSLETTER
Now you can get closer to The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) wherever you are. We’ve redesigned our newsletter to bring you highlights of new publications, updates from the OSC, fun facts and trivia – plus news and views from the IOC and our network of academic partners. It’s available in English, French and Spanish and you can share via email or social media.
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SPOTLIGHT ON THE OLYMPIC STUDIES CENTRE
Find out what’s new at the OSC, including a document on the evolution of the Olympic Village, a new document including sources on Olympic Legacies, and an online catalogue of publications from the Lillehammer and Rio 2016 Organising Committees. Plus the latest on our PhD and Advanced Research Grant Programmes.
We’re open for applications for the 2017 PhD research grant programme from April; you’ll find the rules and application form here shortly.
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NEW ON THE SHELF
We’re recommending some of the latest publications added to our collection from across the Olympic Movement and our academic network. This month’s highlights include the Sochi 2014 Official Report, a unique view on global sports marketing, and an inspiring look at how sport can contribute to peace and development policies.
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ON THE PULSE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
We’ve selected interesting updates from IOC and across the Olympic movement to support Olympic studies. In this edition, the new IOC code to prevent match-fixing. Plus: the IOC is funding new anti-doping research projects – find out how to apply.
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OLYMPIC STUDIES AROUND THE GLOBE
Discover what’s going on in the academic world including a new title – Olympic Idea
Nowadays: perceptions and insights – and a book of abstracts from the 7th International
Sport Business Symposium. Get the latest on academic events with Olympic content. And
don’t miss the deadline for applications to the International Olympic Academy Masters
programme; find out how to apply.
Want you tell people about your Olympic-related courses, conferences or academic projects? Email
us at studies.centre@olympic.org
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IN THE STUDY ROOM
Find out who visited the OSC and how we supported them to create new Olympic knowledge – including Professors Bob Barney and Stephen Wenn, who were visiting from Canada to continue their research on revenue generation of the IOC.
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HAVE YOU SEEN?
Don’t miss Sir Martin Sorrell’s inspiring speech on youth media consumption and what it means for the Olympic Channel and the Olympic Movement. Speaking at the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur in July 2015, the founder of WPP (the world’s biggest advertising and marketing services group) urges the IOC to be “bold, brave and determined” as it evolves to reach a younger audience.
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HIDDEN TREASURES
Unearth one of the oldest files in our collections: the original sheet music of the Olympic Anthem, used in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Which Olympian is hiding behind this mask? He competed at Helsinki 1952, and then went on to play Darth Vader in the lightsaber fight scenes of all three original Star Wars movies.
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