Sunday 6 February 2022

Winter Olympics

 

1980: 13th Winter Games, Lake Placid (Design Zou Jianjun)

All eyes on China who won their first medal of the games in the short track speed skating mixed relay.  Not an easy combination of words to say quickly, as the sports news broadcasters have discovered.  Time to settle down and watch everyone sliding and

1984: Winter Olympics, Sarajevo
jumping. Look out
1968: Winter Olympics, Grenoble (Design Jacques Combet ;Engraving Andre Freres)

incoming

1960: Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley (Design Jozsef Vertel)
Things will get busy
1983: Winter Olympics, Sarajevo
for the thrills and spills


especially in one of my favourite events, the bobsleigh.

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Winter Sports - slide into See It On A Postcard



4 comments:

violet s said...

The Hungarian set is particularly nice. The Grenoble one has cool lines!
And it looks like the same hat is worn by both speed skaters.

Mail Adventures said...

I would'nt associate Guiné Bissau and wonter sports... I like the speed feeling of some illustrations.

viridian said...

The ski jumping stamps are pretty interesting.

FinnBadger said...

I enjoy the bobsledding events, too. I love the design of the Andorra stamp, and I think the most special is your set of Hungarian ones.