SPORT 1913 - 2013

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“In 1925, a year after the Paris Olympic Games, 150,000 workers attended the first Worker Olympics at Frankfurt amMain. In 1931, one year before the Los Angeles “official” Olympic Games at which 1,408 athletes competed, over 100,000 workers from 26 countries took part in the second Worker Olympics at Vienna. More than quarter-million spectators attended the Vienna Games. Five years later, in opposition to the Nazi Olympics at Berlin, a more grand Worker Olympics was planned for Barcelona; however, it never took place....” “Only the Olympic Games, however, are commemorated in hosts of books in every town library, on radio and in films that glorify the exploits of Nurmi, Owens, Abrahams, and Liddell;….”

James Riordan (1996, vii) In: Kruger, A. & Riordan, J. (eds.) The Story of Worker Sport. Human Kinetics. Champaign, IL.

ASKOE – Austria is one of the traditional members of the CSIT with more than 120 years of history.

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