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The last 2006 issue of the Journal of Olympic History was published in December. It is dedicated to the 1906 Olympics in Athens. ISOH members of 14 countries contributed an article about their nation’s participation in these Games, while ISOH president Karl Lennartz discusses the remaining teams.

In addition, three articles are published from ISOH Scholarship students, as well as a discussion of the Olympic status of curling and the military patrol at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

Ivar Formo, Olympic champion in the 50 km cross country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck drowned on 26 December. He was skating on the Store Sandungen lake in Nordmarka (near Oslo) when the ice broke.

Formo (55) first competed in the Olympics in Sapporo, when he won a bronze medal in the 15 km, and a silver with the Norwegian relay team. In Innsbruck he repeated his silver in the 4 x 10 km event, and took a bronze in the 1974 Orienteering World Championships.

Mexican ex-wrestler Alberto Bremauntz Monge died 16 December. He competed in the 1972 Olympics, losing both his matches in the Greco-Roman lightweight division. Bremauntz later became the president of the Mexican Olympians Association, and a member of the Mexican Olympic Committee.