Video of the day: Liberty Fields | The Pioneers of Women's Rugby

Not about Europe, but a nice short documentary:

For more information, see K. Shoji, Scoring a try against gender barriers, The Japan Times (Sept. 18, 2019)

Music video of the day: Deluxe, Get down

See Wikipedia contributors, 'Deluxe (musical group)', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 22 July 2019, 04:17 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deluxe_(musical_group)&oldid=907325651> [accessed 18 September 2019]

The video was shot in Marseille.

Pelops' story; Ancient Olympics

 See http://www.panoply.org.uk/pelops.html#.WboWgMZpyUk for more information on the above animation


By The Stapleton Collection (French), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15518537

Europe in Kansai: Vienna on the Path to Modernism

Official site: https://artexhibition.jp/wienmodern2019/

Osaka National Museum of Art: http://www.nmao.go.jp/exhibition/2019/klimt.html

Europe in Kansai: Power of ceramics. Modernism in Finnish Applied Arts

Official site: http://www.moco.or.jp/exhibition/current/?e=529

Sports and society: a Japanese example

Article of the day: Sports History as Threatened Public History

Jucker, Michael: Sports History as Threatened Public History. In: Public History Weekly 7 (2019) 4, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1515/phw-2019-13304.

... "Whereas the Swiss Sports Museum also covered numerous marginal sports and women’s sport, the largest museums, namely the FIFA Museum in Zurich and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, mainly attract tourists and school classes with up-to-date major sporting disciplines. Particularly striking, moreover, is that both the museums tend to deal with their own past in a rather uncritical manner: Corruption or the role of both the associations during the National Socialist era hardly play a role at all. Both museums are strongly present in dramaturgy and in conveying emotions. "....