A GREAT GAMES

Patrick Kidd

THE PARIS OLYMPICS OF 1924 HAD A number of innovations that survive today. There was the first use of the motto of citius, altius, fortius (swifter, higher, stronger), the first radio coverage and the first Olympic Village. The first Winter Games had been held in Chamonix five months earlier and it had the first closing ceremony in which the flag of the next host country was flown. Yet as far as The Times was concerned that summer, the Dutch flag should have stayed furled and the Games of the eighth Olympiad should have been the last. “Olympic Games doomed” was the headline, followed by the sub-heads “Failure of the ideal” and “Disgraceful scenes”. In a 900-word leading article that described itself as “delivering the funeral oration … of the whole…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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