“In all sports,” the French Olympic Committee wrote in 1924, “pure speed is king.” That was why those Paris Games closed with ...

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash, with American Thomas Burke winning gold in a time of 12 seconds. More than a century later, the 100 meters ...

Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell's victories in the 100 and 400 metres respectively in the 1924 Olympics are surely the best chronicled athletics performance ever after it they were immortalised ...

The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...

Eric is an outstanding athlete and as the Paris Olympic Games of 1924 approach he is the hot favourite to win the 100 metres sprint. But when the event schedule is published Eric discovers his ...

He won three gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics: the 100-meter freestyle, the 400 free, and the 4x200 relay. Weissmuller also won bronze in water polo in an Olympics that featured many stars ...