Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
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www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Dr. Heather Dichter
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Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
Guaranteed entry into host country for everyone associated with the sporting event has been a requirement since 1960s b/c of the problems w/NATO’s non-recognition of East Germany #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory
I wrote a whole book on that: www.umasspress.com/978162534595... @umasspress.bsky.social
GDR team competing during the two man Bobsleigh competition at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, 1988. (via GDRvisuals on Twitter) To this day the GDR and Soviet flags still fly at one of the Calgary Olympic venues
Does anyone’s library subscribe to the British Newspaper Archive anymore & can pull a story from the Reading Evening Post from 1966 for me? #skystorians 🗃️
