number of olympic committees jumped from 29 to 44 over 1,000 journalists covered the event which...
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IMPORTANCE
Number of Olympic committees jumped from 29 to 44
Over 1,000 journalists covered the event which ran from May 4 to July 27
These games instilled the tradition of the closing ceremonies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6b97b2QhcQ
1924 SUMMER OLYMPICS IN PARIS
Last time the track was 500 meters long
Eric Liddell’s story became the inspiration for “Chariots of Fire”
Paavo Nurmi outshined everyone Won the 1500 m Won the 5000 m
Paavo won these two races 50 minutes aparthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6b97b2QhcQ&feature=related
PAAVO NURMI
Paavo also won the cross country race 3000 team race Won 5 gold medals in all—the most by
anyone ever Best Finnish distance runner ever Arguably the best distance runner of all
time
OLYMPIC MOTTO
In the summer of 1924, the Olympic motto was used for the first time Citius, Altius, Fortius Faster, Higher, Stronger Originally from founded by Pierre de
Coubertina French Sporting Federation
1924 SUMMER
First games to feature an Olympic village
Germany still wasn’t invited Ireland recognized as a nation for the
first time and attended Ecuador, Haiti, Ireland, Lithuania,
Mexico, Uruguay, and the Phillipines all attended for the first time
Johnny Weissmuller won 2 swimming golds and went on to play Tarzanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eck6Xy-pC0E
1924 WINTER OLYMPICS
Chamonix in French Alps hosted 1st winter Olympics
16 nations attended Anders Haugen
Competed in the ski jump Due to a scoring error, he didn’t receive his
bronze medal until he was 83 in 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIz-cDy7sv8
HOCKEY WAS BRUTAL
Canada beat Switzerland 33-0 Canada beat Czechoslovakia 30-0 Canada beat Great Britain 19-2 Canada defeated the US 6-1 and won
the championship