The Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies receives a donation from Isidre Rigau, planning and organisation consultant for major sports events.
The donated collection contains over 5000 volumes (documentation, books, magazines, reports, projects, etc.), which include the documents related to the organisation of the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona (2003 and 2013), Madrid’s candidature for the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, as well as the Davis Cup final in 2009, the World Handball Championship in 2013 […]
Esteban Serrano – AKAWonder, a professional gamer, has launched the second day of the Olympic Forum 2019.
The e-Sports were the topic of debate on this second day. To define what e-Sports are we counted on the presence of the gamer Esteban Serrano, a professional SK Gaming player. AKAWonder has introduced us to the world of e-Sports: structure, players, leagues, publishers —video games owners and developers— organisation, promoters, etc. Esteban explained […]
Olympic Forum: Giacomo Modolo, Head of eSport Projects at the IOC
The official welcome was given by David Escudé, Sports Councillor of Barcelona City Council and Provincial Deputy of Barcelona, and by Gerard Esteva, President of the Catalan Sports Federation Union (UFEC). Giacomo Modolo, head of eSport projects at the IOC, has opened today’s session of the XIII Olympic Forum focused on ‘The impact of emerging […]
Sports journalist and writer Núria Pastor donates her golf collection to the Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies
This way, the Centre continues increasing its documentary collection, becoming a reference centre in sports. Núria Pastor started her career in journalism back in 1974, working in the newspaper Diuen and later in 4-2-4. In the early eighties, she started working for La Vanguardia, where she stayed until 2013. Throughout her career as a journalist, […]
Juli Pernas, as Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, receives the Olympic Plaque for Sporting Merit at the annual Gala of the Spanish National Olympic Committee (COE)
32 award-winners, including administrators, federations, sportspersons, coaches, clubs, sponsors… and among them, the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, for its work spreading sporting and Olympic values, and Pere Miró, who received the Olympic Order for his service as a member of the IOC.
Montjuïc, an open book
Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Studies Centre (CEO Samaranch) has opened its doors by participating in the activity Montjuïc, an open book. The activity consisted of an itinerary through three of the documentation centres located in the mountain, where support is made for research of cultural heritage. The itinerary has allowed to enter these spaces and discover the treasures that they hide. Also, from one centre to another, a walk has been made inside the gardens that are in Montjuïc.
Pere Miró, Deputy Director General of the IOC, opens the first day of the 12th Olympic Forum marking the 25th anniversary of Barcelona’92
The official welcome was given by David Escudé, President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and Barcelona City Council Commissioner for Sport, Jordi Solà, Director of the Catalan National Physical Education Institute (INEF), Gerard Figueras, Secretary General for Sport in Catalonia, Victoria Cabezas, Secretary General of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), and Gerard Esteva, President of the Catalan Union of Sports Federations (UFEC).
Second day of the 12th Olympic Forum: 25th anniversary of Barcelona ’92
The current use of Olympic facilities, tourism as a business opportunity and the future of elite Olympic and Paralympic sport were the subjects of the closing sessions of the 12th Olympic Forum: 25th anniversary of Barcelona ’92.
‘Over a hundred years of sport in Mataró: 1802–1950’ by Santi Carreras i Suris is now part of the documentary archive of the J. A. Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies
Santi Carreras (Mataró 1958) began his career as a journalist at the sports magazine Iluro Sport. His work has ranged over sport in many places, but he has always taken a special interest in that of his native city, Mataró. His labour of love has led to this first volume, which covers over 150 years of sport, recording the history of sportspersons, clubs, championships, etc.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, commemorated 25 years since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
As a result of the 25th anniversary of the Olympics, Bach visited Barcelona to relive, with its citizens, those magical moments which transformed the city.
