Atlas Trail
Official Sources Behind the Founding Facts
This atlas rests on the official histories that governing bodies, clubs and federations publish about themselves. This path follows ten of the atlas's own official-reference sources in the order of the founding fact each one documents, from an English regatta first rowed in 1839 to a winter sports federation founded in 1924, showing how each governing body records its own origin.
Stop 1 of 10.
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This is Henley Royal Regatta's own account of its 1839 founding at Henley-on-Thames, recorded here as the oldest rowing regatta in Europe.
Stop 2 of 10.
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The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club's own history states that The Championships have been held at the club since 1877.
Stop 3 of 10.
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World Rugby's own account records the 1886 founding of the International Rugby Football Board by Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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World Rowing's official account documents FISA's own founding in Turin in 1892, the oldest international sports federation in the Olympic movement.
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The International Olympic Committee's own published history records its founding in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin.
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The International Volleyball Hall of Fame's biographical page records that William G. Morgan invented volleyball at the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA in 1895.
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Amaury Sport Organisation's own published history records the Tour de France as first held in 1903.
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FIFA's own published history records that the Federation Internationale de Football Association was founded in 1904.
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United World Wrestling's official history records the modern federation's founding in 1912.
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FIS's own account records its founding in Chamonix, France, in 1924, during the first Olympic Winter Games.
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