On this day meaning tomorrow, 29th July!
After twelve years and the interruption of the Second World War, the Olympic Games were restored when they were opened in London on the 29th of July, 1948. Some 85 000 people packed Wembley Stadium on a brilliantly sunny day, and a speech was made*:
Your Majesty: The hour has struck. A visionary dream has today become a glorious reality. At the end of the worldwide struggle in 1945, many institutions and associations were found to have withered and only the strongest had survived. How, many wondered, had the great Olympic Movement prospered?
While fifty-nine countries sent competitors, Germany and Japan were not allowed to participate, and German forced labour was used to construct some of the facilities.
The Soviet Union chose not to send any representatives.
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Great poster! Shame the Russians decided not to come.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes. The poster makes a mockery of our 21st century efforts at rebranding. Designers and those who commission such designs should look more to the past, in my opinion.
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My love is for Art Deco posters. Divine simplicity. Like these.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2448575/Tourism-adverts-bygone-time-Collection-Art-Deco-posters-luring-travellers-world-set-sell-200-000.html
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Yes, yes, yes – I’m drooling!
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And the rest of the Soviets! My family is Ukrainian, and (for example) in some Games, it was Ukrainians, not Russians, who won every single gymnastics medal!
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Bless the Ukrainians! How interesting that your family is Ukrainian – I’d been thinking you were Irish because of the poet Seamus Heaney!
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