Editing 1924 Summer Olympics (section)

==Highlights==
[[File:Stade de Colombes 1924.jpg|thumb|Colombes Olympic Stadium]]
* The [[Uruguay national football team]] won the gold medal in football, which was recognized as a world championship by [[FIFA]].
* The opening ceremony and several sporting events took place in the [[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir|Olympic Stadium]] of [[Colombes]], which had a capacity of 45,000 in 1924.
* This VIII Olympiad was the last one organized under the presidency of [[Pierre de Coubertin]].
* The "[[Flying Finn]]s" dominated the long-distance running, while the British and Americans dominated the shorter events. [[Paavo Nurmi]] won the 1500 m and 5,000 m (which were held with only an hour between them) and the cross-country run. [[Ville Ritola]] won the 10,000 m and the 3,000 m [[steeplechase (athletics)|steeplechase]] while finishing second to Nurmi in the 5,000 m and cross country. [[Albin Stenroos]] won the [[marathon (sport)|marathon]], while the [[Finland|Finnish]] team (with Nurmi and Ritola) was victorious in the 3,000 m and cross-country team events.
* The British runners [[Harold Abrahams]] and [[Eric Liddell]] won the 100 m and the 400 m events, respectively. Liddell refused to compete in the 100-metre sprint because it was held on a Sunday, and he was an observant Christian. Their stories were depicted in the 1981 film ''[[Chariots of Fire]]''. In addition, [[Douglas Lowe (athlete)|Douglas Lowe]] won the 800-metre competition.
* [[DeHart Hubbard]] became the first African-American to win an individual gold medal in the [[Long jump]].
* The [[marathon (sport)|marathon]] distance was fixed at {{convert|42.195|km|mi|abbr=on}}, from the distance run at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in London.
* The 1924 Olympics were the first to use the standard 50 m pool with marked lanes.
* Dual-sport athlete [[Johnny Weissmuller]] won three gold medals in swimming and one bronze in [[water polo]].
* [[Harold Osborn]] won gold medals and set Olympic records in the high jump and the 1924 Olympic decathlon. His 6' 6" high jump remained the Olympic record for 12 years, while his decathlon score of 7,710.775 points also set a world record and resulted in worldwide press coverage recognizing him as the "world's greatest athlete."
* [[Fencing (sport)|Fencer]] [[Roger Ducret]] of France won five medals, of which three were gold.
* In gymnastics, 24 men scored a perfect 10. Twenty-three scored it in the now-discontinued [[rope climbing]] event. Albert Seguin scored a ten here and a perfect ten on the side vault.
* The Olympic motto ''[[Olympic symbols|Citius, Altius, Fortius]]'' (Faster, Higher, Stronger) was used for the first time at the Olympics. It had been used before by the {{Lang|fr|[[Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques]]|italic=no}}, a French sporting federation whose founding members included [[Pierre de Coubertin]].<ref>'' The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC- Athens to Beijing, 1894–2008'': David Miller (2008)</ref> De Coubertin took the motto from his friend [[Henri Didon]], a [[Dominican Order|Dominican priest]] who had coined the phrase during a speech before a Paris youth gathering of 1891.<ref name=motto>{{cite web|title=Opening Ceremony|url=http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_268.pdf|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=23 August 2012|page=3|year=2002|archive-date=11 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211010920/http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_268.pdf|url-status=live}}; "Sport athlétique", 14 mars 1891: "[...] dans une éloquente allocution il a souhaité que ce drapeau les conduise 'souvent à la victoire, à la lutte toujours'. Il a dit qu'il leur donnait pour devise ces trois mots qui sont le fondement et la raison d'être des sports athlétiques: citius, altius, fortius, 'plus vite, plus haut, plus fort'.", cited in Hoffmane, Simone ''La carrière du père Didon, Dominicain. 1840 - 1900'', Doctoral thesis, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, 1985, p. 926; cf. Michaela Lochmann, ''Les fondements pédagogiques de la devise olympique „citius, altius, fortius"''</ref>
* [[Ireland at the Olympics|Ireland]] was given formal recognition as an independent nation in the Olympic Movement in Paris in 1924, and it was at these games that Ireland made its first appearance in the Olympic Games as an independent nation.
* Originally called ''Semaine des Sports d'Hiver'' ("Week of Winter Sports") and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions held in [[Chamonix]] between 25 January and 5 February 1924 were later designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the I Olympic Winter Games. ([[1924 Winter Olympics]])
* These were the first Games to have an [[Olympic Village]].
* The [[Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics]] were the first time that the [[Art competitions at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Art competitions]] were contested seriously, with 193 entries in five categories. A total of 14 medals were awarded, though none were given in the music category.<ref>M. Avé, Comité Olympique Français, pp. 601–612</ref>