As the 2024 Paris Olympics Open, Remembering the 1924 Paris Games
As the 2024 Paris Olympics kick off, it’s fascinating to learn that the French city has held the games twice before. Once in 1900 and again in 1924, exactly 100 years ago.
We came across a great collection of photographs from the 1924 games, which show the spirit and energy of those early games. It’s a fascinating look back 100 years, and showing how the spirit of the global games carries through, a century later.
The American gymnast team practice at their training camp.The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics at Colombes Stadium on July 5, 1924.British Royal, Edward, Prince of Wales (center), and Gaston Doumergue, president of France (right), at the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics in July 1924.Ropes separate these 100-meter runners during a qualifying heat.A photographer with a hefty camera, left, captures the men’s individual cross-country event won by Paavo Nurmi (Finland), right.Helen Wills of the USA during a doubles tennis match.A French weightlifter at the 1924 Olympic Games.The start of the tandem-cycling final at La Cipale Municipal Velodrome on July 26, 1924.DeHart Hubbard of the United States wins the running long jump with a distance of 24 feet 6 inches, becoming the first African American to win an individual Olympic gold medal.The pole vault finalU.S. athletes Caroline Smith wins the 10-meter-high diving competition at the Tourelles water-sports stadium.Elizabeth Becker, from the United States, dives during the 1924 Games.The men’s tennis singles quarterfinal.
