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Olympic Stories as depicted on Stamps
First Winter Olympic Winner
The
first champion of the Winter Olympics to be honoured on a postage stamp
was the skier Kalle Jalkanen. It was at the Winter Olympics at Garmisch
Partenkirchen in 1936. The most exciting part of the Games was the last
stage of the 4 x 10 kms skiing relay. At that time the Norwegian team
were 1.22 minutes ahead of the Finns. But Jalkanen put on an
unbelievable spurt and nort only made up for the lost time, but even
overtook his opponent, the great skier, B. Iversen. To mark this great
triumph Finland brought out a set of stamps in 1945 dedicated to
Jalkanen.
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Olympic stamp Kaleidoscope
On the occasion of 2008 Olympic Kingdom of Bahrain released these two stamps.
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…
