On the occasion of the opening of the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024, Romfilatelia offers to the lovers of high-performance sports and collectors the issue of postage stamps PARIS 2024, which will be introduced into circulation on Friday, July 26th, this year. Consisting of six postage stamps, a perforated souvenir sheet and two First Day Covers, the issue reproduces in the images of the stamps symbols of seven sports disciplines in which our country has participants.
The Olympic Games hosted by the capital of France, Paris, are officially registered as the thirty-third edition of the Summer Olympic Games, Paris 2024 in short, being considered as one of the great multi-sport events organized once every four years.
Having hosted the Olympic Games in 1900 and 1924, Paris becomes the second host city for the third time, in a similar situation to London, which hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, 1948 and 2012. This year’s Olympic event it is also registered as an anniversary event: the centenary of the Paris Olympic Games (1924) and of Romania’s first participation in the Olympic competitions, in the same year 1924.
In Paris, our country will participate this year in the competitions scheduled for 18 sports disciplines with a number of 107 competitors. The bearers of the Romanian flag, at the opening ceremony, will be Ionela and Marius Cozmiuc (rowers well known for their Olympic performances).
Competitors representing the 45 sports disciplines chosen for this year’s competitions will take part in the 329 trials included in the Paris Olympic Games calendar.
We must recall that, until now, Romania’s participation in the Olympic Games has resulted in over 300 medals (most in gymnastics). Participating in 23 editions of the Summer Olympic Games and 22 editions of the Winter Olympic Games, Romania was on the award podiums obtaining 90 gold, 97 silver and 122 bronze medals.
The first Olympic gold medal, for Romania, was won by Iosif Sârbu, in 1952 in Helsinki, in the pistol trial. In 1976, Nadia Comăneci obtained the first Olympic 10 in the history of gymnastics in Montreal. Romania’s best ranking in the Olympic competitions was recorded in 1984 in Los Angeles, when it took second place in the nation ranking (after the United States of America) with a total of 53 medals: 20 gold, 16 silver and 17 bronze.
For this year’s edition, the lovers of Olympic sports in Romania want, as is natural, the reconfirmation of the best and most beautiful traditions of Romanian successes, which would result in a place as best as possible entered in the top of the best performing teams belonging to the 206 countries entered in the competition, whose motivation is to obtain as many medals as possible, out of the total of 324, which will be handed out on the award podiums.
The postage stamps of the issue illustrate symbolic images of some sports disciplines in which Romania has representatives with high chances of winning medals: gymnastics (face value Lei 10), fencing (face value Lei 3), athletics trials (face value Lei 4), kayak-canoeing (face value Lei 5),swimming (face value Lei 13) and table tennis (face value Lei 6).
The postage stamp of the souvenir sheet (face value Lei 33) depicts a rowing trial, respectively the 8 +1 rowing trial.
The two First Day Covers present in their graphics the symbolic design of the national imprint reproduced on the T-shirts of the Romanian athletes and respectively a chromatic composition in which the graphic symbols of the representative monuments of Paris can also be found.
Allez, Allez, Paris 2024!
Romfilatelia thanks Mr. Mihai Covaliu, President, Mr. George Boroi, General Secretary and the entire team of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee for the documentary support granted to the development of this issue of postage stamps.
