Posters

No official poster was made for the 1896 Olympic games, but the cover page of the official report is No official poster was made for the 1896 Olympic games, but the cover page of the official report is often used to represent the Athens 1896 Games. For the Olympic Games in Paris 1900 being the athletic part of the World Exhibition no specific poster was created either with the exception of one single event being fencing. The presented photo of St. Louis 1904 shows the cover of the programmes of these games. As from London 1908 there has always been one main poster. Initially there was only the main poster (partially in different languages). Since the late 1960’ies a surge of posters has been produced in different categories: sports, advertising, arts, culture, bid-process, torch relay and volunteering. Since I've started collecting posters I have found more than 900 different ones. Here you find a small selection of the main posters from 1896 until 2010. In recent years “wrong” posters have been used as official posters by error. See also “Good to know” > ”Incorrect use”.

Athens 1896		Paris 1900		St.Louis 1904
London 1908		Stockholm 1912		Anvers 1920
Chamonix 1924		Paris 1924		St.Moritz 1928
Amsterdam 1928		Lake Placid 1932		Los Angeles 1932
Garmisch P. 1936		Berlin 1936		St.Moritz 1948
London 1948		Oslo 1952		Helsinki 1952
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956		Stockholm 1956		Melbourne 1956
Squaw Valley 1960		Rome 1960		Innsbruck 1964
Tokyo 1964		Grenoble 1968		Mexico 1968
Sapporo 1972		Munich 1972		Innsbruck 1976
Montréal 1976		Lake Placid 1980		Moscow 1980
Sarajevo 1984		Los Angeles 1984		Calgary 1988
Seoul 1988		Albertville 1992		Barcelona 1992
Lillehammer 1994		Atlanta 1996		Nagano 1998
Sydney 2000		Salt Lake 2002		Athens 2004
Torino 2006		Beijing 2008		Vancouver 2010
London 2012