The British Olympic Association are saddened to hear about the passing of Olympic historian and journalist David Miller.
Miller attended his first Olympic Games at Tokyo 1964, marking the beginning of an illustrious career as a journalist and author in which he became chief sports correspondent of the Daily Express, and subsequently The Times.
He became a journalist after leaving Cambridge University in 1956 and across six decades, covered a total of 25 Olympic Games, both Summer and Winter, and published several books on the Olympic movement.
In 2023, Miller was awarded the prestigious Pierre de Coubertin medal for his outstanding contribution to the Olympic Movement, believed to be the first British sports journalist to receive it since its inception in 1997.
Named after the founder of the modern Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Pierre de Coubertin medal was created as a means of paying tribute to those who help to promote Olympic values through teaching, research, writing or art.
Miller was presented with the medal by the late Sir Craig Reedie on behalf of IOC president Thomas Bach in the BOA offices in London.
The former Sports Journalists' Association chairman wrote ‘Athens to Athens’, an official history of the Olympics and the IOC, in 2004, and also chronicled Birmingham and Manchester's unsuccessful Olympic bids and London's successful campaign to host the 2012 Games.
Miller's work and enthusiasm for Olympic sport was an incredible contribution to the movement, and his passing is met with deep sadness.
Dame Katherine Grainger said: "David was a fantastic journalist, and a great supporter of the Olympic Movement. Very few people in the world are awarded the prestigious Pierre de Coubertin medal, but it is a testament to David's work over many decades that he was recognised in this way by the IOC. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time."