“Tennis and the Olympic Games” exhibition opens. The ceremony was hosted by Stan Smith, President of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum in the United States, and Maite Fandos, President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation. Pedro Hernández, curator of the exhibition, was given the task of offering an insight into the history of tennis at the Olympic Games.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of tennis organisations, clubs and legendary figures, including Ivan Tibau, Secretary-General for Sport in Catalonia; Emilio Ablanedo, Central Government Deputy Representative in Catalonia; Jose Luís Escañuela, President of the Spanish Royal Tennis Federation; Albert Agustí, President of the 1899 Barcelona Royal Tennis Club; Joan Navarro, President of the Catalan Tennis Federation, and the players Albert Costa, Àlex Corretja, Jordi Arrese, Andreu Gimeno and Manuel Orantes, among others.
Golf Night Gala
As every year, the “golf night gala” was staged at the Olympic Museum.
The sporting world expressed the shared loss of the passing of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, himself a huge sports fan, once said: “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.”
Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum hosts sport and environment seminars
The Youth Sport Foundation run by the Higher Sports Council pays an official visit to Barcelona’s Olympic and Sport Museum
The board of trustees of the Youth Sport Foundation is made up of leading organisations and enterprises in the world of sport. The representatives of the bodies on the board and members of the foundation Manuel Santos Gemma Gort, Carolina de la Calzada, Mariano Ruiz, Gonzalo Cristóbal, Juan Contreras, Antonio Olivares, Francisco Javier Jiménez, Paloma del Río, Alfonso Jiménez, Victoria Alonso and Pilar Calzado, were welcomed by Juli Pernas, Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
Maite Fandos, President of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and Deputy Mayor for Quality of Life, Equality and Sport, receives the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic delegation at the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum
The Rio de Janeiro delegation, made up of Pedro Paulo Teixera, Chief Secretary of the Civil House; Guilherme Schleder, Under-Secretary of State; Marta Tellez, Communications Director of the Municipal Olympic Enterprise; Gabriel Bell, Chief Adviser for Bilateral Corporation and Julio Cessar, Chief Adviser of the President’s Office (IPLAN), were received by the Barcelona City Council delegation headed by Maite Fandos; Enric Truñó, Commissioner for the Barcelona 2026 Olympic bid; and Josep Roca, International Affairs Coordinator.
Maria Teresa and her brother Juan Antonio Samaranch i Salisachs, guests of honour at formal opening of the exhibition
Commemorating Glory is one of the first ventures to be staged in Barcelona following the agreement signed between the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and the Samaranch Foundation in China last October.
2013-14 academic year open at the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum History Symposium
Journalist Joan Manuel was given the task of moderating this fourth session of the History Symposium.
The José Higueras forum “Football and Tennis – Two Professional Sport Models”
The Royal Spanish Tennis Federation, the Spanish Tennis Foundation and the Godó Group organised the José Higueras Forum at the Olympic Museum for the purpose of promoting and disseminating the values of sport, particularly tennis.
An original inaugural ceremony ticket to the Monjuïc Olympic Stadium in 1929 becomes a part of the Joan Antoni Samaranch Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport museum collection
Pedro Hernández, Professional Tennis Area Manager for the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation and a sport item collector has donated an original ticket to the Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport corresponding to the inauguration in 1929, of the Monjuïc Olympic Stadium on the occasion of the International Expo of Barcelona.
