Tokyo 1964-Feather weight (60 kg): MIYAKE Yoshinobu (JPN) 1st.

To mark International Mountain Day, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today announced the launch of the Mountain Summit – a group of sports organisations concerned with the current state of the world’s mountains and committed to protecting them.

For the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa directed a film that has gone down in Olympic history. The Japanese filmmaker opted for an artistic approach to showcase the beauty and intensity of sport, its joys and exertions, and the faces of athletes from all over the world, in a lyrical work of stylistic beauty that has left a truly lasting impression.   

In its original documentary “Can’t Stay Down”, the Olympic Channel takes us behind the scenes at Hanuman Akhara, India’s oldest and most prestigious wrestling club, where dreams of Olympic glory are made and realised.

In the past several months, rugby sevens star Scott Curry has led New Zealand to victory at the Commonwealth Games and the World Cup. This success follows a three-year cycle during which the All Blacks failed to finish higher than third in the season-long World Series and changed head coach after 22 years. With gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games his ultimate aim, we caught up with 30-year-old Curry to chat through training routines, childhood heroes and his background as a science teacher. 

Relive the superb Olympic day of Friday 19 August in Rio on olympic.org. Usain Bolt competed in his last race at the Games, the 4x100m relay, and achieved a new triple. Wins for Germany in the women’s football, Carolina Marín for Spain in badminton and Cheick Sallah Cissé in taekwondo for Côte d'Ivoire marked amazing firsts; Russia remained undefeated in synchronised swimming; while Mariana Pajón reigned supreme in BMX!