Olympic Day Celebrations
Bid cities, NOCs, organizing committees and sports enthusiasts worldwide will observe Olympic Day on June 23, the day the IOC was founded in 1894.
The occasion is remembered annually throughout the Olympic Movement with parties, promotions and, most often, fun runs ranging from 5k to a full marathon.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is making a week of the holiday with its largest celebration to date. More than 350 events are registered with the USOC between June 17 and 26.
Elsewhere, PyeongChang 2018 will stage a community marathon, and the IOC Women and Sport Commission will gather in Lausanne to hand out its annual trophies for movers and shakers at the intersection of women and sport.
And atrip to the Olympic Museum is the grand prize in the IOC's so-called Olympic Day Challenge, unveiled last month.Facebook users 18 and older must simply post text, photos or videos of themselves "doing sport" to a dedicated Facebook page before Olympic Day to be eligible for a range of prizes.
Check back throughout the week for a complete rundown of Thursday’s observances.
Tuesday Talk with Sochi 2014
This week’s Tuesday Talk is with Sochi 2014 president Dmitry Chernyshenko.
He tells Around the Rings the patchworkquilt of 16 separate styles recently unveiled as the Look of the Games is a way to balance both the diversity and the unity present in modern Russia.
Expect to see the bold design on a range of officially licensed products by year's end, he says, and on basically everything else associated with the Sochi Winter Olympics by 2014.
In the meantime, Chernyshenko explains the reasons behind the Look of the Games in this editionof Tuesday Talk.
By the Book
As the July 6 vote for a 2018 Winter Olympic host city nears, ATR has compiled information from the bid books of Annecy, Munich and PyeongChang into a series of daily features known as By the Book.
The series continues this week with a look at the competition venues proposed for each of the seven sports on the Winter Games program.
Written by Matthew Grayson.
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