The International Centre for Olympic Studies

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The International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS), founded in 1989, is a research, resource and service facility located in Room 2235, 3M Centre at the Western University in London, Canada. ICOS' purpose is to encourage, generate and disseminate scholarship on a broad range of social and cultural themes related to the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games and the Olympic Movement. It seeks to achieve this through several initiatives.

Annually, ICOS publishes the scholarly journal Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies.

In every Olympic year, the Centre organizes and stages an international symposium for Olympic and Paralympic research, the proceedings of which are published.

ICOS sponsors guest lectures on Olympic themes, with the most notable being the annual Crocker, Zeigler, and Ioannides Lectures.

In its research facility, ICOS maintains resources and facilities for visiting scholars worldwide as well as for Western researchers.

ICOS also maintains an active schedule of public media engagements related to topical Olympic issues.