1924-2024 Olympic football – Aux Armes!
In an extract from his new book Aux Armes! Sport and the French – an English perspective, Insideworldfootball columnist David Owen highlights the birth place of the march towards the all-conquering World Cup.
The 1924 Paris Olympics, in Europe’s most captivating capital city, cemented the air of permanency the International Olympic Committee had begun to acquire having survived the Great War. The Games allowed Pierre de Coubertin, the Modern Olympic founder,
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