by John Martino | Aug 4, 2021 | History, Myth
The title question heading this blog piece has been asked more than once – if ‘Olympia’ is the previously untold story of how the first Olympics came into being, why haven’t the authors just told it as history? Well, the answer to that is...
by John Martino | Jul 24, 2021 | Event, History, Tokyo Games
As with every modern Olympics – except the 2004 Athens Games, where Greece had its flagbearer lead the procession and then brought up its entire team in the rear, the traditional position for hosting nations – Hellas proudly led the way across the Tokyo...
by John Martino | Jul 17, 2021 | Event, Review
Despite an imminent lockdown, fated to start only a few hours after the end of the launch event, the official book launch for ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’ at Melbourne’s gorgeous Hellenic Museum went off with a real bang. Mountains of books were...
by John Martino | Jul 8, 2021 | Event, Review
The prominent British Olympic commentator, Philip Barker, has released quite a flattering initial review of ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’ this week. He also intends to follow up this first ‘marking piece’ with a more detailed review of the...
by John Martino | Jul 7, 2021 | Event
I was very fortunate to have a great meeting with the Japanese Consul-General to Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania earlier this week. Not only has C-G Shimada signified his pleasure at being asked to act as a guest speaker at the forthcoming ‘Olympia’...