More than 100 veteran Olympic journalists celebrated during AIPS Centennial Celebration in Paris

PARIS, August 6, 2024 - Italian photographer Giuliano Bevilacqua led the special list of sports journalists and photographers who were celebrated at the UNESCO headquarters on Tuesday (August 6) for having covered 10 or more summer and winter Olympic Games, including Paris 2024. The 83-year-old has covered 29 Games, followed by Hugo Steinegger with 28, while Laci Perenyi and Christine Brennan shared the bronze.

In what was an incredibly inspiring moment during the AIPS Centennial Celebration, these doyens of sports journalism who have each dedicated nothing less than 18 years to conveying the essence of the Olympic Games through words and images, received a set of AIPS pins, a copy of the beloved former AIPS lawyer François Carrard’s “By The Way” and other gifts from the 16 sports legends present.

THE SPORTS LEGENDS The world and Olympic champions, including Laureus World Sports Academy Members, who presented the awards to the journalists were: Antonio Rossi, Edwin Moses, Donna de Varona, Sean Fitzpatrick, Nawal El Moutawakel, Sebastian Coe, Nadia Comaneci, Kipchoge Keino, Daley Thompson, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Tegla Loroupe, Chris Hoy, Wu Jingyu, Ana Fidelia Quirot, Sergey Bubka and Nicol David.

JOURNALISTS ON THE PODIUM The first edition of the AIPS Journalists on the Podium took place at the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games with more than 100 Olympic journalists awarded Honav’s replica of the London 2012 Olympic torch. Since then this unique tradition has also left its mark at many other single-sport and multi-sport events. Paris 2024 marks the return of the Journalists on the Podium to the Olympics after a pandemic hiatus. It will be the fifth time the event will take place at the Olympics after London 2012 (Summer), Sochi 2014 (Winter), Rio 2016 (Summer) and Pyeongchang 2018 (Winter). The event was not held at Tokyo 2020, which took place in 2021, and Beijing 2022 due to the stringent COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time.

LIST OF JOURNALISTS AWARDED
29
Giuliano Bevilacqua (Italy) - Male
28
Hugo Steinegger (Switzerland) - Male
21
Christine Brennan (USA) - Female
Laci Perenyi (Germany) - Male
20
Vladimir Drbohlav (Czech Republic) - Male
Ernst Friedbert Raulf (Germany) - Male
19
Karen Rosen (USA) - Female
Soenar Chamid (Netherlands) - Male
Włodzimierz Szaranowicz (Poland) - Male
Alain Mercier (France) - Male
Mats Wennerholm (Sweden) - Male
18
Charles E. Belle (USA) - Male
Reidar Sollie (Norway) - Male
17
Steve Keating (Canada) - Male
Jie Zhou (China) - Male
Thomas Schreyer (Germany) - Male
Dariusz Szpakowski (Poland) - Male
Henri Szwarc (France) - Male
Sergio Renato Dovio (Argentina)           - Male
Jonathan Bramley (UK) - Male
16
Thorsten vom Wege          (Germany) - Male
Ľubomír Souček (Slovakia) - Male
John Volkers (Netherlands) - Male
Wakako Yuki (Japan) - Female
Paloma del Río (Spain) - Female
Leonildo Turrini (Italy) - Male
Herbert Slavík (Czech Republic) - Male
Christian Seychal (France) - Male
Giancarlo Colombo (Italy) - Male
15
Alexander Hassenstein (Germany) - Male
Clive Brunskill (UK) - Male
Gergi Banov (Bulgaria) - Male
Jacquelin Magnay (Australia) - Female
Petz Lahure (Luxembourg)            - Male
Tsutomu Kishimoto (Japan) - Male
Andrei Golovanov (Russia) - Male
Michal Dusík (Czech Republic)    Male
14
Tracey Holmes (Australia)            - Female
Todor Shabanski (Bulgaria) - Male
Marc Ventouillac (France) - Male
Julian Linden (Australia) - Male
Jugder Otgontsagaan (Mongolia)           - Male
Eileen Langsley (UK) - Female
Charles Camenzuli   (Malta) - Male
Toshimi Oriyama (Japan)   Male
olaf Brockmann (Poland) - Male
Claudio Scaccini (Italy)      Male
13
Alan Abrahamson (USA) Male
Lars Becker (Germany)       Male
Olaf Brockmann (Germany)           Male
Nickolai Dolgopolov (Russia)      Male
Héctor Urrego (Colombia) Male
Jari Juhani Porttila (Finland)         Male
Stephen Moore (USA)       Male
Henryk URBAŚ (Poland)   Male
Cezary Gurjew (Poland)     Male

12
Wang Jingyu           (China) Male
Ossian Shine (UK) Male
Shinsuke Kobayashi (Japan)        Male
Donna Spencer (Canada) Female
Stefano Arcobelli (Italy)    Male
Tongjie Zhao (China)         Male
Konstantinos Vernikos (Greece) Male
Adrián Rodríguez Huber (Spain) Male
James Toney            Male (UK)
Cao Jianjie (China) Male
Alan Adams (Canada)       Male

11
Fernando Schwartz (Mexico)        Male
Franco Fava (Italy) Male
Rumiko Morishima (Japan)           Female
Gunnar Meinhardt (Germany)      Male
Emanuela Audisio (Italy)   Female
Alfonso 'Toto' Arévalo (Bolivia) Male
Walter Challapa (Bolivia) Male
Gregor Derichs (Germany) Male
Stefan Verheij (Netherlands)        Male
George Hamilton (Ireland) Male
Hiroyuki Nakmaura (Japan) Male
Wojciech Atys (Poland)    Male
Marek Rudziński (Poland) Male
John Salvado           (Australia) Male
Kazimierz Mochlinski (UK)           Male
Yumiko Yanai (Japan)        Female
Etienne Bonamy (France) Male
Jeremy Brett Walker (UK) Male
Grohmann Karolos Male

10
Delly Carr (Australia)         Male   10
José Luis López (Spain)     Male   10
Jaap de Groot (Netherlands)         Male   10
Yang Liu (China)     Female           10
Hongheng Yuan (China)   Male   10
Yuanfei Li (China)   Male   10
David William Leah (UK) Male   10
Matteo Pacor           (Italy) Male 10
Anders Lindblad (Sweden)           Male 10
José Arturo Fernando Nürnberg (Bolivia) Male          10
Elisabetta Caporale (Italy) Female           10
Prabhjot Paul Singh (India)           Male   10
José Antonio Miguélez (Spain)   Male   10
Andreas Eisenring (Switzerland) Male   10
Carlos Julio Guzmán Piñeros (Colombia)           Male   10
Przemysław Babiarz (Poland)        Male   10
Piotr Dębowski (Poland)    Male   10
Zbigniew Chmielewski (Poland)   Male   10
Paul Zimmer (Germany) Male       10
Gergely Csurka (Hungary)            Male   10
Marek Solecki (Poland)      Male   10
Zhang Han (China)             Female           10
Yannis Theodorakopoulos           (Greece) Male          10
Greg Allen (Ireland) Male 10
Iacopo Volpi (Italy) Male 10
Brian Pinelli (USA) Male   10

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