Official report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad : Barcelona 1992. V.1. The Challenge : from the idea to the nomination

COOB’92 (1992): Official report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad : Barcelona 1992. V.1. The Challenge : from the idea to the nomination. Barcelona : COOB’92.

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“The drafting of this first volume has involved a tremendous labour of documentation. The information has been taken, as far as possible, from the most reliable sources, the basis being the documents published by the Olympic Office and the branches of the administration which formed the consortium of the Managing Council during the period of the Candidature. The IOC archives have also been consulted, as well as those of the companies which make up HOLSA (AOMSA, VOSA and IMPU) and those so kindly placed at our disposal by the institutions of the COOB’92 consortium through the relevant organisations. Some private archives were also referred to when the need arose. Altogether
the compilers have read over thirty thousand pages and looked at over ten thousand photographs. In the selection of the photographic material prominence has been given to the documentary and informative aspects. Moreover, the Report has benefited from the contribution of specialists from a wide range of disciplines -who have brought to our work an authority which it would not otherwise have had- and, as the drafting progressed, from the suggestions of all those closely involved with the Candidature.”

Fragment taken from the editorial note to the volume, written by Roma Cuyàs i Sol, Director of the Official Report.