#Sports Stamps
Australia Post releases latest Olympic stamp
The four members of Australia's victorious women's freestyle relay team are the latest Olympians to feature on a stamp. Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie grabbed the gold at the Beijing Olympics yesterday, beating the Chinese and American teams in world record time. Stamps featuring the four with their gold medals will be available in metropolitan Australia Post outl
Sport for Peace - Games of the XXIX Olympics, Beijing, China
On 8 August 2008, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) will issue a set of six commemorative stamps in mini-sheet format on the theme "Sport for Peace". The stamp issue coincides with the OLYMPIC EXPO BEIJING 2008 which is being held in Beijing, China from 8 to 18 August in conjunction with the Games of the XXIX Olympics. Three souvenir sheets and a Beijing Personalized stamp sheet will
San Marino: 75th Edition Of The Road Cycling World Championships – Varese
Known throughout the world as the Garden City, Varese will host the most prestigious cycling event in 2008: the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Road Cycling World Championships. The first edition was held in Adenau, in Germany, in 1927, won by Alfredo Binda who then went on to win again in 1930 and 1932. Three routes characterize the Cycling World Championships: a road trial circuit for the elite
San Marino: The Olympic Games In Beijing
The 29th Olympic Games will be inaugurated on the 8th of August 2008, with a grand opening ceremony in the "Bird's Nest" stadium in Peking, one of the architectural gems built expressly for this extraordinary event. A couple of important and representative international Olympic sporting disciplines become the subjects of a prestigious and exclusive philatelic issue, dedicated to the Beijing Olympi
Spain: Stone Lifting Stamp
Spain has released a stamp honoring one of its traditional sports - stone lifting. It consists of lifting or carrying heavy stones to prove one's strength. Issue date: 16/05/2008
Swiss Olympic stamp issue
Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX), mountainbiking and canoeing. Two new Olympic sports and one very old discipline feature on the programme of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and Swiss Post is spotlighting them on two stamps and a picture postcard. Date of issue: 08.05.2008
UEFA EURO 2008 - Children's Drawing
The coming UEFA EURO 2008 will be the largest sports event ever held in Austria, and from 7 to 29 June 2008 the whole of Europe will be under the spell of "the most important triviality in the world", football. During this period, 16 teams will compete for the UEFA EURO Cup in eight different stadiums in Austria and Switzerland - a media event that is being used by countless enterprises to positio
Finland: Two-stamp miniature sheet to be issued for Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen's 2007 Formula 1 world championship is to be celebrated with stamps. The commemorative issue is a self-adhesive miniature sheet bearing two 1st class non-value indicator stamps. The miniature sheet will be issued on 5 September 2008. The reigning world champion will get his stamp on the verge of the Belgian Grand Prix, two days before the start of the qualifying round. The designer
Australian Open 2008 Personalised Stamp Sheet
The 2008 Australian Open personalised stamp sheet features four well of today's best known players on the selvedge of the stamp sheet. (Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams) The sheet of 10 x 50c stamps features the Globe stamp (from 2003) with a generic image in the personalised stamp tab. Issue date: 14 January 2008
Warne makes his mark on Caribbean stamps
Shane Warne may have gone from Test cricket but on the palm-fringed beaches of the Caribbean, his image lives on. The island nation of Grenada has released a series of 24 postage stamps depicting various images of the spin champion and world-record Test wicket taker. "Grenada Post, on behalf of the West Indies government of Grenada, is releasing a full collection of national stamps to honour Shane
