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Olympic Stories as depicted on Stamps
Fencing Hero of Cuba
The souvenir sheet shown here
was released
by the Republic of Cuba to honour Ramon Fonst, holder of
five Olympic fencing awards. The name of this remarkable sportsman who
for 45 years took part in major events and competitions in fencing,
pistol shooting, boxing and cycling is held in just as much honour in
Cuba as, shall we say, the great chess-player Jose-Raoul Capablanca. He
is still vivid in minds of people of Cuba. He can still fire the
strength and spirit of generations to come.
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Olympic stamp Kaleidoscope
In 2004, India released these four stamps to honour 28th Olympic games.
Olympic Stories Lot-3
- Statue of Pentathlete
- Olympic Music
- Misha - the Mascot
- Nadia Komaneci
- First Olympic Swimmer
- Fencing Hero of Cuba
- Paavo Nurmi
- Olympic Wrestling
- Olympic Walking Race
- Olympic Long Jump
- Jesse Owens
- 1st Winter Oly Winner
- Laszlo Papp-the Boxer
- Bob Mathias
Recent Updates
[31/08/2008] modified version of an ancient Red Indian ball game called 'Baggataway' More…
[27/08/2008] Glima, the Icelandic national wrestling, a display of which was included in the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 More…
[26/08/2008] Unique feature of 2008 Olympic stamps of Australia More…
