ABSTRACT
The founding and development of STADION: International Journal of the History of Sport can only be adequately understood from the political and educational context of sport and its institutionalization in the 1960s. Two major sporting events held in Germany were decisive in these changes – the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1974 FIFA World Cup. STADION has seen itself as an alternative to the purely English-language journals of sport history in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. By the early 1970s, an academic and political climate had developed that decisively favoured the founding of STADION. The relationship between History of Physical Education and Sport and STADION marks the beginnings of international cooperation in the field of sport history. STADION has published reviews of important works on the history of sport and games, physical exercise, and body culture. Scholarship from conferences aligned to the quadrennial Olympic Games were published as volumes of STADION.
