It was interesting to read my colleague Brian Oliver’s piece on the XIth Olympic Congress in Baden-Baden in then-divided Germany exactly forty years ago.

World Rowing has opened the nomination process for the 2017 Thomas Keller Medal to the general public.

Here is a short quiz for keen students of the Olympic Movement.

Who said this? “All over the world people are tired of the insincerity, the excessive cost and the ceremony which accompany the Games. Their huge success in this century is no guarantee for the future.”

Or how about this? “Cooperation with the International [Sports] Federations (IFs) is more than ever necessary. The federations are, as always, ready to cooperate, but expect that this cooperation will be in a spirit of genuine partnership…In society, the role of sport will be ever more important, either with Olympism or without, and therefore the role of the IFs will not cease gaining importance.”