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Olympic Stories as depicted on Stamps
Alfred Hajos - the first Olympic swimmer
The holder of the first Olympic swimming gold medal was the then 18-years-old
Hungarian., Alfred Hajos. But Hajos was famous
not only as a great
swimmer. He was the chief trainer of the national football team,
director of the first Hungarian sports paper and the designer of a
number of original architectural projects. As a matter of additional
interest, Hajos won the silver medal for his sports stadium project in
the Olympic Arts Concourse in Paris in 1924. In 1980 Hungary released a
single-sided postcard with an original stamp and a special postmark
dedicated to Alfred Hajos. Both of these postal souvenirs tell of the
"golden tale" of 1896.
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Olympic stamp Kaleidoscope
To commemorate XX OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. TURIN" Lithunia released the following stamp in 2006. The XX Winter Olympic Games took place in Turin on February 10-26, 2006. Approximately 2500 athletes from 85 countries participated in the Olympics.
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…
