Official Olympic Reports

April 12, 2018 7:39 PM

The IOC apparently publishes official reports after each Olympics. They're available digitally online, but I want hard copies, which go for hundreds of dollars on Amazon/eBay. Is there an official source for these? How do the copies that they print get distributed? (Could I get on a list somewhere for the upcoming Pyeongchang 2018 report?)
posted by reductiondesign to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

As far as I know, those reports are distributed between members of the organizing committee, IOC and NOCs (and likely some partners and libraries) and are not available to the general public in physical format.
To get a physical copy through official means, I'd contact the Olympic Studies Center/Olympic World Library, although you probably need to give a pretty good reason why the PDF wouldn't be enough. Otherwise, contact your NOC (although, once again, you probably would need a pretty good reason to have it, or someone on the inside that could hook you up).
posted by lmfsilva at 11:08 AM on April 13, 2018

Do you need a hard copy or do you need the specific booklet that was printed by the IOC?

Because I guarantee you that the sellers on Amazon are simply downloading the PDFs in your "official reports" link and printing copies of them. Save money and avoid the middleman by downloading the PDF and printing it yourself.
posted by ardgedee at 11:42 AM on April 14, 2018

Not to thread-sit, but these are much more than printed PDFs, these are multi-volume hardcover books in custom slipcases.
posted by reductiondesign at 1:13 PM on April 14, 2018