Word: olympiades
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Laurel wreaths having gone out of fashion, the U. S. welcomed its victorious athletes on their return from the eighth Olympiad with noise-loud noise - emitted through the natural national mouth, Manhattan...
...last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling, France; gymnastics, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The few athletes remaining in Paris paid bills, packed trunks, bought tickets, caught steamer-trains, held postmortems. Led by the London Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed...
...Eighth Olympiad actually started in January with Winter Sports, at Chamonix, French Alps, as Division I of the events. Of the 21 divisions, 5 had been completed as follows before President Doumergue enunciated a belated "En avant...
...Genoa, although in a minor key, are playing the decisive part in an amusing "comedy of errors" now going on in Paris over the site of the next Olympic games. The whole story is a striking reflection of a certain type of post-war French mentality. When the 1920 Olympiad was awarded to Antwerp, taking the place of Berlin, and the games were such a pronounced success. France bent every effort to secure the next award. She felt that she deserved it, as she deserved many other things in that epoch of the war's after-glow. The international committee...
Since that time two years have passed. The games will be held somewhere summer after next, and France still has not picked the location not subscribed any adequate sum of money for the purpose. Instead of assuming that the Olympiad, properly staged, would bring thousands of visitors and millions of francs of Paris; the French attitude has been to spend as little as possible and wait for the millions to roll in of their own accord...