AIPS Journalists on the Podium: FIFA World Cup veterans to be honoured at Qatar 2022

Details: Published: 08 November 2022

The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) is pleased to announce that it will honour journalists and photographers who have covered 8 or more FIFA World Cups, including the Qatar edition, at a special ceremony to be held in Doha.

HOW TO APPLY Please send your details including name, nationality, number of FIFA World Cups covered, media organisation, date of birth and a Jpeg photo of yourself to this email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 16. Put “Journalists on the Podium + your name” in the object of the email.

UNIQUE TRADITION Journalists on the Podium is a unique tradition of celebrating longevity in sports journalism. It was born in August 2012 and Honav’s replica of the 2012 London Olympic torch was presented to more than 100 veteran journalists, each of whom had covered 10 Olympic Games or more.

“Many times we don’t think enough about how the stories, pictures and news are passed on. It is great to be here to honour the journalists, many of whom have become friends with the athletes,” said Edwin Moses – the former American hurdler who dominated the 400-metre hurdles event for a decade, winning gold medals in the race at the 1976 and 1984 Olympic Games - during the first ceremony.

THE PAST EDITIONS

2012 London (UK) Summer Olympic Games

2014 Sochi (RUS) Winter Olympic Games

2015 Toronto (CAN) Pan American Games

2016 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) Summer Olympic Games

2017 London (UK) World Athletics Championships

2018 Pyeongchang (KOR) Winter Olympic Games

2018 Glasgow (UK) LEN European Championships

2018 Berlin (GER) European Athletics Championships

2019 Verona (ITA) Giro d’ Italia

2019 Cairo (EGY) Africa Cup of Nations football

2022 Budapest (HUN) FINA World Championships

2022 Munich (GER) European Athletics Championships

"Without you, our work will not exist, because you are important to us, absolutely important, and your success is our success. The veterans here are for us a core group of people who have all the answers because having more than six Winter Games means you know exactly what, and you can also make our work much better. We want to be promoted by you and also sometimes criticized by you," said one of the top sports leaders who was present at our ceremony.

FIFA WORLD CUPS SINCE 1930

1930 Uruguay

1934 Italy

1938 France

1950 Brazil

1954 Switzerland

1958 Sweden

1962 Chile

1966 England

1970 Mexico

1974 West Germany

1978 Argentina