JOURNAL OF SPORTS PHILATELY Volume 52 Spring 2014 Number 3 The World Comes to Sochi TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Message Mark Maestrone 1 The World Comes To Sochi Mark Maestrone 2 Golf in Bermuda Patricia Loehr 9 How India won the tenth Cricket World Cup Peter Street 12 Portugal's 1928 Olympic Stamps (Parts 2 & 3) Manfred Bergman 11 EURO 2012 – An Addendum Kon Sokolyk 23 The Friendly Games (Part 2) William Silvester 24 Brazil Issues First 2014 World Cup Stamps Mark Maestrone 29 A Triple Surprise Norman Jacobs 30 How Germany (Almost) Competed at the Mark Maestrone 31 1948 London Olympic Games The Sports Arena Mark Maestrone 32 Book Review: “1906 The Olympic Issue” Mark Maestrone 33 Reviews of Periodicals Mark Maestrone 34 News of our Members Mark Maestrone 35 www.sportstamps.org On the cover: Marit Bjørgen, winner of the Sochi Olympics Ladies' Skiathlon at the flower ceremony on 8 February 2014. Photo by Iurii Osadchi. Also shown, the Norway Post Olympic stamp showing Marit Bjørgen issued 7 February 2014. 2014 SOCHI SPORTS PHILATELISTS INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS President: Mark C. Maestrone, 2824 Curie Place, San Diego, CA 92122 2 Vice-President: Charles V. Covell, Jr., 207 NE 9th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601 Secretary-Treasurer: Andrew Urushima, 1510 Los Altos Dr., Burlingame, CA 94010 Directors: Norman F. Jacobs, Jr. – email only:
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