Taken at the International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia Last week I was asked to write a guest blog post for Podium. Podium are the official link between the London 2012 Olympic Games and higher and further education institutions – and encourage and promote the Olympic movement through education. I was asked to write about my experience/thoughts on the International Olympic Academy (where I have been for the month of September), an often under looked, but critically important part of the modern Olympic movement. An extract from the post is below, the full article is available here. “To those outside of the Olympic studies field, the notion …