In the year 2024 Paris Will host the Olympic Games to the third time.
The first was in 1900 and the last was almost a century ago, in 1924. Since then, it is clear that the world has changed radically. Technology advanced, records were broken, and new champions were crowned.
During these 100 years, some sports were no longer part of the Olympic programme, while others were incorporated into the Games.
Today’s event venues are specifically designed to enable athletes to maximize performance and provide the best possible experience for fans.
But if a lot has changed over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries, from Paris 1924 to Paris 2024, these editions of the Olympics are evidence of the undeniable importance of the French capital in the world of sports.
what’s new? What is left of 1924? And what differences can you notice between now and then? With 500 days to go until the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, Olympics.com provides facts and figures comparing the upcoming Games to the 1924 Games.
Sport all edition
The 1924 Paris Games were held in just under three months May 4th and July 27thwith 17 sports and 126 events from the medal.
Paris 2024 will be held from July 26th to August 11th with approx Double the sport: 32 in total – and 329 medals.
the ChipsFencing, the first women’s fencing event on the Olympic programme, was introduced in the Olympics 1924. The games were also the first to include demonstration sports: Basque pelotaAnd you save it (French boxing), boat And fighting bars – French martial arts similar to fencing where the contestants use a stick, reeds accurately.
Paris 1924 was the last time tennis was included in the Olympic program, until its return to Seoul in 1988. It was also the last time we saw rugby in a 15-a-side version, with the sport only returning in Rio 2016 at the Races. – Alternate player (rugby for seven).
In Paris 2024, Break will make its gaming debut.
Number of athletes and the Olympic Village
to Paris 1924 come 3089 mathematicians (135 women and 2,954 men), many of whom were housed in The first Olympic village. The village was located in CoulombNear the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, northwest of central Paris.
to Paris 2024 is expected to have 10,500 participants, with women and men in equal numbers. The Olympic Village for the upcoming Games is located five minutes from the Stade Saint-Denis, seven kilometers from the center of the French capital.
Countries participating in each edition
In Paris 1924, 44 National Olympic Committees were represented. Ecuador, Ireland, Lithuania, the Philippines and Uruguay sent delegations for the first time. Latvia and Poland also made their Summer Games debuts, but months ago they sent two athletes to the Chamonix Winter Games.
More than 200 National Olympic Committees will participate in 2024, in addition to the Refugee Olympic Team.
Records from 1924 and some may be surpassed in 2024
At the 1924 Paris Games, Finn Paavo Nurmi set the Olympic athletics records in the 1500m – with a time of 3:53.6 – and in the 5000m with a time of 14:31.2. The two events occurred within an hour of each other. The current best times over these distances at the Olympic Games are:
Another Finn, Phil Ritola, broke the world record in the 10,000m with a time of 30:23.2. Today the record is 26:11.00, set by Ugandan Joshua Cheptigye in 2020.
The US team set world records in the 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relay. In the first, 4x100m, the time was 41 seconds. He is currently 36.84, the time set by Jamaica in London 2012. In the 4x400m relay, the time is 3:16.00. Today the record is 2:54.29 and still belongs to the United States, which got it during the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.
American Harold Osborne set a new high jump record at 1.98 metres. The current record is 2.39 meters, which was achieved by American Charles Austin in Atlanta 1996.
As for the women, swimming in Paris in 1924 saw the United States’ Marichen Wieslaw record the world’s best time in the 100-meter freestyle (1:12.2). The current record is 51.71 and belongs to Sarah Schoestrom of Sweden. Martha Norelius, another swimmer from the United States, broke the Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle in 6:02.2. The current Olympic record at this distance is 3:56.46, set by American Katie Ledecky.
What awaits us in Paris 2024? In the pole vault, Sweden’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis was a record-breaking machine. At the Clermont-Ferrand meet at the end of February, he flew 6.22m over the bar. In contrast, the 1924 Paris Olympic champion, American Lee Barnes, jumped 3.95m.
In the triple jump, Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas is the name to beat and he could make more history in the French capital, breaking her own world record of 15.74 metres.
The 400m hurdles provided plenty of excitement, with Norway’s Karsten Warholm and America’s Ray Benjamin – gold and silver medalists respectively at the recent Games – both falling short of the world record in Tokyo. The bronze went to Brazilian Alison dos Santos, who fell short of matching the record by only two years. Less than a year later, he became the world champion.
Fiji’s men’s team could become three-time Olympic champions in rugby events in Paris 2024, if they qualify for the Games. In soccer, Brazil’s men’s team has the opportunity to catch up with Hungary and Great Britain by winning three Olympic titles.
Playgrounds and facilities
A site from Paris 1924 will be used in Paris 2024. Lo Yves du Manoir Stadium The Columbus Club has hosted opening and closing ceremonies for nearly a century, as well as some rugby and soccer championship matches. In 2024, the stadium will host a hockey tournament, while rugby and football will be played in other venues, including Stade de Francethe Princes Park And other stadiums scattered across France.
In 1924 sailing competitions were held in Normandy, in Le Havre and also on the banks of the Seine, at Moulin-en-Yvelines. In 2024 it will take place in Marseille on the Mediterranean coast. The duel will take place in one of the most prestigious venues in the French capital Grand Ballet. It was held in Paris in 1924 on a covered track on the avenue Nelaton in the center of Paris.
In 2024, surfing will be present at the Games for the second time and the competition will be held outside Europe. waves Teahopo In Tahiti (French Polynesia) you will receive the best surfers in the world in search of Olympic glory.
The stars of 1924 and the most anticipated stars of 2024
The biggest names in Paris in 1924 were the Flying Finns. Paavo Nurmi And Ritola Villas. Nurmi remains the only athlete to have won five athletics gold medals at a single edition of the Games, while Ritola has only won six medals at a single edition.
American Ethel Lackey won two gold medals in swimming (100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestyle), while two American tennis players made history in Paris 1924: Helen Wills reached the podium in singles and doubles alongside Hazel Wightman, who won Also won the gold medal in mixed doubles.
Other stars at the Games include France’s Roger Ducret, with five medals in fencing, and American Johnny Weissmuller, with three golds in swimming and a bronze in water polo.
Paris 2024 has many names aiming to make history. Swede Duplantis, in addition to being the world and Olympic champion and world record holder, is one of them.
In swimming, Australian Molly O’Callaghan and Sweden’s Sarah Schöstrom reached their highest levels at the World Championships last year and are favorites to win gold at the upcoming Games. O’Callaghan He has already won three Olympic medals in the relay: two gold and one bronze. She is the current world champion in the 100-meter freestyle and the silver medalist in the 200-meter freestyle. Sjoestroem She finished second in Tokyo 2020 in the 50m freestyle, but in 2022 she finished on the podium at the World Championships. There is no doubt that he will want to improve the results in Tokyo in Paris.
In the men’s swimming competition, look out for young Romanian David Popovici, who has made great progress in recent seasons. He is the European champion in the 200-meter and 100-meter freestyle events and holds the world record in the latter (46.86).
Swimming with Tarzan | Paris 1924
Curiosities about the 1924 Paris Olympics
Presentation of the 1924 Paris Games for the first time The closing ceremony as we know it today, which includes raising three flags:
- Flag of the International Olympic Committee
- Flag of the host country
- Flag of the next country that will host the Summer Olympic Games.
Paris 1924 was immortalized in the movie Chariots of Fire, which tells the story of the British athletics team’s preparation for the Games. The film won an Academy Award in 1982 in four categories:
- the best movie
- Best original screenplay
- best fashion
- Best soundtrack
1924 US Olympic Champion Johnny WeissmullerHe has a long career in cinema, as he played the character “Tarzan” in several films.
Uruguay, in its first participation in the Games, won the Olympic football tournament in Paris in 1924. In reference to the title, one of the four stars above the coat of arms of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) denotes that gold medal. One of the stands at the Centenario stadium in Montevideo – where the first FIFA World Cup Final was played in 1930 – is called “Colombes”, in honor of the city where that victory was achieved.
Uruguay’s victory in Paris in 1924 also gave rise to the expression “Olympic goal”.
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