Know Your Olympics - Paris Olympics 1924

The last Olympics under Pierre de Coubertin

Paris Olympics - The Last Games under Pierre De Coubertin's Presidency [Image for Representational Purposes]

The 1924 edition of the Summer Olympics was the last to be conducted under the presidency of Pierre de Coubertin. It was this man who had brought the Olympics back to life. It was this man who had made it so that these Games saw the light of the day.

As a result, it was natural that he was given a fitting farewell. The city of Paris was once again selected for the Summer edition. However, for the first time, the Winter Olympics also began from this year onwards. Although the first edition commenced at Chamonix, the Winter Olympics had finally taken off.

When Pierre de Coubertin took over the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, the first subsequent Olympics were naturally held in Paris in 1900. Not many know this, but when literature and art competitions were a part of the Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin had won an Olympic gold medal as well.

Coubertin won the gold medal for literature at the 1912 Summer Olympics for his poem Ode to Sport. He entered the poem under the pseudonym of Georges Hohrod and M. Eschbach. Pierre de Coubertin was ultimately succeeded in 1925 by Belgian administrator Henri de Baillet-Latour.