Editing 1924 Summer Olympics

{{Short description|Multi-sport event in Paris, France}}
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{{Infobox Olympic games|1924|Summer|Olympics|
| image       = [[File:1924 Summer Olympics logo.svg|280px|class=skin-invert]]
| image_size  = 280
| caption     = Emblem of the 1924 Summer Olympics
| host_city   = [[Paris]], France
| nations     = 44
| athletes    = 3,089 (2,954 men, 135 women)
| events      = 126 in 17 [[Olympic sports|sports]] (23 disciplines)
| opening     = 5 July 1924
| closing     = 27 July 1924
| opened_by   = [[President of France|President]] [[Gaston Doumergue]]<ref>{{cite press release |title=Factsheet - Opening Ceremony of the Games f the Olympiad|url=https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf|url-status=live |publisher=International Olympic Committee|date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814215458/https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2016|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>
| stadium     = [[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir]]
| summer_prev = [[1920 Summer Olympics|Antwerp 1920]]
| summer_next = [[1928 Summer Olympics|Amsterdam 1928]]
| winter_prev = [[1924 Winter Olympics|Chamonix 1924]]
| winter_next = [[1928 Winter Olympics|St Moritz 1928]]
}}

The '''1924 Summer Olympics''' ({{langx|fr|Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924}}), officially the '''Games of the VIII Olympiad''' ({{langx|fr|Jeux de la VIII<sup>e</sup> olympiade}}) and officially branded as '''Paris 1924''', were an international [[multi-sport event]] held in [[Paris]], France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had already started on 4 May. The Games were the second to be hosted by Paris (after [[1900 Summer Olympics|1900]]), making it the first city to host the Olympics twice.

The selection process for the 1924 Summer Olympics consisted of six bids, and Paris was selected ahead of [[Amsterdam]], [[Barcelona]], [[Los Angeles]], [[Prague]], and [[Rome]]. The selection was made at the 20th IOC Session in [[Lausanne]] in 1921.<ref name=votes>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |title=Past Olympic host city election results |publisher=[[GamesBids]] |access-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The cost of these Games was estimated to be 10,000,000&nbsp;[[French franc|F]] (equivalent to {{Euro|link=yes}}{{Format price|{{#expr:({{Inflation|FR|10000000|1924}} / 100 / {{FixedEuroRate|FRF}})}}}} in {{Inflation/year|FR}}{{Inflation/fn|FR}}). With total receipts at 5,496,610&nbsp;F (equivalent to {{Euro}}{{Format price|{{#expr:({{Inflation|FR|5496610|1924}} / 100 / {{FixedEuroRate|FRF}})}}}} in {{Inflation/year|FR}}), the Olympics resulted in a hefty loss despite daily crowds of up to 60,000.<ref name=Zarnowski>{{cite journal |author-link1=Frank Zarnowski |last=Zarnowski |first=C. Frank |date=Summer 1992 |title=A Look at Olympic Costs |journal=Citius, Altius, Fortius |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=16–32 |url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525062441/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The United States won the most gold and overall medals, having 229 athletes competing compared to France's 401.

==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>

==Sports==
[[File:Paris JO 1924.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|Overall map of the Olympic venues]]
[[File:LIFEMagazine10Jul1924.jpg|thumb|The "Olympic Number" of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', 10 Jul 1924.]]
126 events in 23 disciplines, comprising 17 sports, were part of the Olympic program in 1924. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.

{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* Aquatics
** {{GamesSport|Diving|Events=5|Format=d}}
** {{GamesSport|Swimming|Events=11|Format=d}}
** {{GamesSport|Water polo|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Athletics|Events=27|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Boxing|Events=8|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Cycling|Format=d}}
** Road <small>(2)</small>
** Track <small>(4)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Equestrian|Format=d}}
** Dressage <small>(1)</small>
** Eventing <small>(2)</small>
** Show jumping <small>(2)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Fencing|Events=7|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Football|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Gymnastics|Events=9|Format=d}}
*[[File:Modern pentathlon pictogram (pre-2025).svg|20px]] [[Modern pentathlon at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Modern pentathlon]] <small>(1)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Polo|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Rowing|Events=7|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Rugby union|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Sailing|Events=3|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Shooting|Events=10|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Tennis|Events=5|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Weightlifting|Events=5|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Wrestling|Format=d}}
** Freestyle <small>(7)</small>
** Greco-Roman <small>(6)</small>
}}

===Demonstration sports===
* {{GamesSport|Basque pelota|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Canoeing|Format=d}}
* [[File:Fencing pictogram.svg|20px|class=skin-invert]] [[La canne at the 1924 Summer Olympics|La canne]]
* {{GamesSport|Savate|Format=d}}<ref name="Summer Demonstration">{{cite web | title=Demonstration sports : history at the Olympic Summer Games / The Olympic Studies Centre | website=Olympic World Library | date=2024-01-19 | url=https://library.olympics.com/doc/SYRACUSE/619826 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119230639/https://library.olympics.com/doc/SYRACUSE/619826 | archive-date=2024-01-19 | url-status=live | access-date=2024-01-27}}</ref>

===Jeux de L’Enfance===
The Jeux de L’Enfance, a program of youth sports competitions and activities, were held by Olympic organizers alongside the Games in cooperation with the [[YMCA]].<ref name="Barker 2015">{{cite web | last=Barker | first=Philip | title=Did the first Youth Olympics really take place in Paris 100 years ago? | website=International Society of Olympic Historians – ISOH | date=2015-03-03 | url=https://isoh.org/did-the-first-youth-olympics-really-take-place-in-paris-100-years-ago/ | access-date=2024-01-29}}</ref><ref name="Report 628">[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 628. {{in lang|fr}}</ref> The following future Olympic sports were exhibited:
* {{GamesSport|Baseball|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Basketball|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Volleyball|Format=d}}

==Venues==
[[File:Paris JO 1924.svg|thumb|Map of Olympic sites]]

Seventeen sports venues were used in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Stade de Colombes served as the final venue for the [[1938 FIFA World Cup]] between [[Italy]] and [[Hungary]].

{| class="wikitable sortable" width=780px
!width=40%|Venue
!class="unsortable" width=45%|Sports
!width=10%|Capacity
!class="unsortable"| Ref.
|-
|| [[Château de Bagatelle|Bagatelle]] || [[Polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Polo]] ||align="right"|598
| align=center|<ref name="auto">[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 528-9. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Seine|Bassin d'Argenteuil]] || [[Rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Rowing]] || align="right"|2,216
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 165-7. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Camp de Châlons]] || [[Shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Shooting]] (600 m free rifle individual and team) || align="right"|395
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 565-6. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Fontainebleau]] || [[Modern pentathlon at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Modern pentathlon]] (riding) || align="right"|Not listed.
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 501-3. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Auteuil Hippodrome|Hippodrome d'Auteuil]] || [[Equestrian at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Equestrian]] || align="right"|8,922
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 222-3. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Issy-les-Moulineaux]] || Shooting (trap shooting, including team event) || align="right"|41
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 544-6, 549. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Le Havre]] || [[Sailing at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Sailing]] || align="right"|541
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 584, 587. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Le Stade Olympique de Reims]] || Shooting (trap shooting, running target) || align="right"|420
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 563-5, 568. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Le Stand de Tir de Versailles]] || Modern pentathlon (shooting), Shooting (25 m rapid fire pistol, running deer) || align="right"|82
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 489, 548-9.</ref>
|-
|| [[Meulan-en-Yvelines]] || Sailing || align="right"|389
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 582-3, 587. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Piscine des Tourelles]] ||  [[Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Diving]], Modern pentathlon (swimming), [[Swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Swimming]], [[Water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Water polo]] || align="right"|8,023
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympic official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 438-40, 443-4, 499 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
|-
|| [[Saint-Cloud Racecourse|Saint-Cloud]] ||  Polo || align="right"|7,836
| align=center|<ref name="auto"/>
|-
|| [[Stade Bergeyre]] ||  Football || align="right"|10,455
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Summer Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 318, 320. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir|Stade de Colombes]] ||  [[Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Athletics]], [[Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Cycling]] (road), Equestrian, [[Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Fencing]], Football (final), [[Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Gymnastics]], Modern pentathlon (fencing, running), [[Rugby union at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Rugby union]], [[Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Tennis]] || align="right"|60,000
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 50-5, 96-7, 121, 152, 216, 222, 238, 248, 265, 318, 339, 375, 499, 503, 536. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Stade de Paris]] ||  Football || align="right"|5,145
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Summer Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 318, 321. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Stade Pershing]] ||  Football || align="right"|8,110
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Summer Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 318, 322. {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
|-
|| [[Vélodrome d'hiver]] ||  [[Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Boxing]], Fencing, [[Weightlifting at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]], [[Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]] || align="right"|10,884
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 182-3, 203-4, 255, 266, 400, 425, 507. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|-
|| [[Vélodrome de Vincennes]] ||  [[Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics|Cycling]] (track) || align="right"|12,750
| align=center|<ref>[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf 1924 Olympics official report.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |date=5 May 2011 }} pp. 200-217. {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
|}

==Participating nations==
[[File:1924 Summer Olympic games countries.png|thumb|Participating Countries of the 1924 Olympiad]]
[[File:1924 Summer olympics team numbers.png|thumb|Number of athletes]]
A total of 44 nations were represented at the 1924 Games. [[Germany at the Olympics|Germany]] was still absent, having not been invited by the Organizing Committee.<ref name=GuttmannGermany>{{cite book |last=Guttmann |first=Allen |title=The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games |year=1992 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |location=Urbana and Chicago |isbn=0-252-01701-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/olympicshistoryo00gutt/page/38 38] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/olympicshistoryo00gutt/page/38 }}</ref> [[Republic of China at the Olympics|China]] (although it did not compete), [[Ecuador at the Olympics|Ecuador]], [[Ireland at the Olympics|Ireland]], [[Lithuania at the Olympics|Lithuania]], and [[Uruguay at the Olympics|Uruguay]] attended the Olympic Games for the first time, while the [[Philippines at the Olympics|Philippines]] competed for first time in an Olympic Games as a nation (though it first participated in the 1900 Summer Olympic Games). [[Latvia at the Olympics|Latvia]] and [[Poland at the Olympics|Poland]] also attended the Summer Olympic Games for the first time (having both appeared earlier at the [[1924 Winter Olympics]] in [[Chamonix]]).

The 1924 Olympics saw a return of the following nations: [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Cuba]], [[Haiti]], [[Hungary]], [[Mexico]], [[Romania]] and [[Turkey]].

At the time, [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Canada]], [[South Africa]] and [[Irish Free State|Ireland]] were all dominions of the [[British Empire]]. [[India]] was also part of British Empire, but was not a dominion. For other sovereign states (i.e. United States, France, Brazil, Japan, etc) and the international community as a whole (i.e [[League of Nations]]) the term [[British Dominion|dominion]], used internally in the British Empire, was very ambiguous, meaning "something between a colony and state". It was only years later with the [[Statute of Westminster 1931]] that this ambiguity would be dispelled. 

And [[Philippines]] was an [[territory of the United States|unincorporated territory]] and [[commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|commonwealth]] of the [[United States]].

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:100%;"
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! Participating [[:Category:Nations at the 1924 Summer Olympics|National Olympic Committees]]
|-
|
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* {{flagIOC|ARG|1924 Summer|77 athletes}}
* {{flagIOC|AUS|1924 Summer|36}}
* {{flagIOC|AUT|1924 Summer|49}}
* {{flagIOC|BEL|1924 Summer|172}}
* {{flagIOC|BRA|1924 Summer|12}}
* {{flagIOC|BUL|1924 Summer|24}}
* {{flagIOC|CAN|1924 Summer|65}}
* {{flagIOC|CHI|1924 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|CUB|1924 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|TCH|1924 Summer|70}}
* {{flagIOC|DEN|1924 Summer|89}}
* {{flagIOC|ECU|1924 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|EGY|1924 Summer|33}}
* {{flagIOC|EST|1924 Summer|44}}
* {{flagIOC|FIN|1924 Summer|90}}
* {{flagIOC|FRA|1924 Summer|401}} '''(host)'''
* {{flagIOC|GBR|1924 Summer|267}}
* {{flagIOC|GRE|1924 Summer|26}}
* {{flagIOC|HAI|1924 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|HUN|1924 Summer|89}}
* {{flagIOC|IND|1924 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|IRL|1924 Summer|39}}
* {{flagIOC|ITA|1924 Summer|200}}
* {{flagIOC|JPN|1924 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|LAT|1924 Summer|41}}
* {{flagIOC|LTU|1924 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|LUX|1924 Summer|22}}
* {{flagIOC|MEX|1924 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|MON|1924 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|NED|1924 Summer|153}}
* {{flagIOC|NZL|1924 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NOR|1924 Summer|62}}
* {{flagIOC|PHI|1924 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|POL|1924 Summer|65}}
* {{flagIOC|POR|1924 Summer|30}}
* {{flagIOC|ROU|1924 Summer|51}}
* {{flagIOC|RSA|1924 Summer|30}}
* {{flagIOC|ESP|1924 Summer|129}}
* {{flagIOC|SWE|1924 Summer|108}}
* {{flagIOC|SUI|1924 Summer|75}}
* {{flagIOC|TUR|1924 Summer|31}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|1924 Summer|299}}
* {{flagIOC|URU|1924 Summer|31}}
* {{flagIOC|YUG|1924 Summer|37}}
{{div col end}}
|}
* {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912}} [[Republic of China at the 1924 Summer Olympics|China]] also took part in the Opening Ceremony, but its four athletes (all tennis players) withdrew from competition.<ref>{{cite book|title=Les Jeux de la VIII<sup>e</sup> Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel |editor=M. Avé |publisher=Librairie de France |location=Paris |language=fr |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |access-date=16 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |archive-date=5 May 2011 |quote=39 seulement s'alignérent, ne représentant plus que 24 nations, la Chine, le Portugal et la Yougoslavie ayant déclaré forfait. |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees===
{{sticky table start}}
{| class="wikitable collapsible sortable sticky-table-head" style="border:0;"
|-
! Country
! Athletes
|-
| {{flagIOC|FRA|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 401
|-
| {{flagIOC|GBR|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 239
|-
| {{flagIOC|USA|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 229
|-
| {{flagIOC|ITA|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 200
|-
| {{flagIOC|BEL|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 172
|-
| {{flagIOC|NED|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 153
|-
| {{flagIOC|ESP|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 129
|-
| {{flagIOC|SWE|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 108
|-
| {{flagIOC|FIN|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 90
|-
| {{flagIOC|DEN|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 89
|-
| {{flagIOC|HUN|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 89
|-
| {{flagIOC|ARG|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 77
|-
| {{flagIOC|SUI|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 75
|-
| {{flagIOC|TCH|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 70
|-
| {{flagIOC|CAN|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 65
|-
| {{flagIOC|POL|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 65
|-
| {{flagIOC|NOR|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 62
|-
| {{flagIOC|ROM|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 51
|-
| {{flagIOC|AUT|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 49
|-
| {{flagIOC|EST|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 44
|-
| {{flagIOC|LAT|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 41
|-
| {{flagIOC|IRL|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 39
|-
| {{flagIOC|YUG|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 37
|-
| {{flagIOC|AUS|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 36
|-
| {{flagIOC|EGY|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 33
|-
| {{flagIOC|TUR|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 31
|-
| {{flagIOC|URU|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 31
|-
| {{flagIOC|POR|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 30
|-
| {{flagIOC|RSA|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 30
|-
| {{flagIOC|GRE|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 26
|-
| {{flagIOC|BUL|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 24
|-
| {{flagIOC|LUX|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 22
|-
| {{flagIOC|LTU|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 13
|-
| {{flagIOC|MEX|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 13
|-
| {{flagIOC|BRA|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 12
|-
| {{flagIOC|CHI|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| {{flagIOC|CUB|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 9
|-
| {{flagIOC|JPN|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 9
|-
| {{flagIOC|HAI|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 8
|-
| {{flagIOC|IND|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| {{flagIOC|MON|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| {{flagIOC|ROC|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| {{flagIOC|NZL|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| {{flagIOC|ECU|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| {{flagIOC|PHI|1924 Summer}} ||align=center| 1
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:right; border:0px; background:#fff;"| '''Total''' ||style="text-align:center; border:0px; background:#fff;"| '''3,089'''
|-
|}{{sticky table end}}


==Medal count==
{{Main|1924 Summer Olympics medal table|List of 1924 Summer Olympics medal winners}}
These are the nations that won
medals the 1924 Games.

{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = FRA
 | flag_template  = flagIOC
 | event          = 1924 Summer
 | team           = 
 | gold_USA = 45 | silver_USA = 27 | bronze_USA = 27
 | gold_FIN = 14 | silver_FIN = 13 | bronze_FIN = 10
 | gold_FRA = 13 | silver_FRA = 15 | bronze_FRA = 10 | host_FRA = yes 
 | gold_GBR = 9 | silver_GBR = 14 | bronze_GBR = 12
 | gold_ITA = 8 | silver_ITA = 3 | bronze_ITA = 5
 | gold_SUI = 7 | silver_SUI = 8 | bronze_SUI = 10
 | gold_NOR = 5 | silver_NOR = 2 | bronze_NOR = 3
 | gold_SWE = 4 | silver_SWE = 13 | bronze_SWE = 12
 | gold_NED = 4 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 5
 | gold_BEL = 3 | silver_BEL = 7 | bronze_BEL = 3
 | gold_AUS = 3 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 2
 | gold_DEN = 2 | silver_DEN = 5 | bronze_DEN = 2
 | gold_HUN = 2 | silver_HUN = 3 | bronze_HUN = 4
 | gold_YUG = 2 | silver_YUG = 0 | bronze_YUG = 0
 | gold_TCH = 1 | silver_TCH = 4 | bronze_TCH = 5
 | gold_ARG = 1 | silver_ARG = 3 | bronze_ARG = 2
 | gold_EST = 1 | silver_EST = 1 | bronze_EST = 4
 | gold_RSA = 1 | silver_RSA = 1 | bronze_RSA = 1
 | gold_URU = 1 | silver_URU = 0 | bronze_URU = 0
 | gold_AUT = 0 | silver_AUT = 3 | bronze_AUT = 1
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 3 | bronze_CAN = 1
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 1
 | gold_HAI = 0 | silver_HAI = 0 | bronze_HAI = 1
 | gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1
 | gold_NZL = 0 | silver_NZL = 0 | bronze_NZL = 1
 | gold_POR = 0 | silver_POR = 0 | bronze_POR = 1
 | gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 1
}}
*  [[Pierre de Coubertin]]—founder of the [[IOC]] & father of the modern Olympics movement—personally awarded 21 gold medals to members of the [[1922 British Mount Everest Expedition]] including 12 Britons, 7 Indians, 1 Australian and 1 Nepalese.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17493939 |date=26 March 2012 |title=Everest Olympic medal pledge set to be honoured |first=Mark |last=Georgiou |access-date=31 August 2012 |work=BBC News |archive-date=22 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922145422/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17493939 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/19/olympic-secret-everest-forgotten-hero |title=My modest father never mentioned his Everest expedition Olympic gold |first=Ed |last=Douglas |work=The Guardian |date=19 May 2012 |access-date=31 August 2012 |location=London |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173145/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/19/olympic-secret-everest-forgotten-hero+ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Legacy==
The 1924 Summer Olympics was the second edition of the Summer Olympics to be held in Paris. 100 years later, the city has hosted the games once again with the [[2024 Summer Olympics]], marking its third time, becoming the second city ever to host the [[Summer Olympic Games|Summer Olympics]] three times (after [[London]], which hosted the [[1908 Summer Olympics|1908]], [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948]], and [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]] Games). Paris 2024 also marks the [[centenary]] of  [[1924 Winter Olympics|Chamonix 1924]], which in turn marks the [[1924 Winter Olympics|centenary]] of the [[Winter Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]]; making Paris 2024 the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France (three Summer Olympics and three [[Winter Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]]), and the first French Olympics since the [[1992 Winter Olympics|1992 Winter Games]] in [[Albertville]].

Notable debuts of participating countries for the Paris 1924 Olympics include [[Ireland at the Olympics|Ireland]], [[Latvia at the Olympics|Latvia]], [[Lithuania at the Olympics|Lithuania]], [[Philippines at the Olympics|Philippines]], [[Poland at the Olympics|Poland]], [[Romania at the Olympics|Romania]], and [[Uruguay at the Olympics|Uruguay]]; all of which celebrated their centenary participation at the 2024 Summer Olympics back in Paris. 

One venue from the 1924 Games was used in the 2024 Games. The extensively renovated and downsized main stadium, known since 1928 as [[Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir]], hosted field hockey.

The last surviving competitor of the 1924 Summer Olympics was [[Croatia]]n swimmer [[Ivo Pavelić]], who died on 22 February 2011 at the age of 103; he competed for Yugoslavia, which Croatia was part of at the time. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/51732 |title=Ivo Pavelić |work=Olympedia |access-date=8 June 2021 |archive-date=8 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608074800/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/51732 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Continuation of Jeux de L’Enfance, games for youth sports and competition, from the Paris 1924 was embodied through the creation of [[Youth Olympic Games|Youth Olympics Games]] inaugurating in [[Singapore]] with the [[2010 Summer Youth Olympics]] with 3,600 athletes aged 14–18 from 204 nations competing in 201 events in 26 sports.

==See also==
{{IOC seealso|games=1924 Summer Olympics }}
* ''[[Chariots of Fire]]''

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{IOC games|games=1924 Summer Olympics }}
* {{cite book |title=Les Jeux de la VIII<sup>e</sup> Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel |editor-first=M. |editor-last=Avé |author=Comité Olympique Français |publisher=Librairie de France |location=Paris |language=fr |url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |access-date=30 June 2018 |trans-title=The Games of the VIIIth Olympiad Paris 1924 – Official Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410085129/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf |archive-date=10 April 2008 |url-status=dead }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040311110027/http://cbs.sportsline.com/olympics/summer/history/1924 1924 medal winners] – from CBS
* [http://olympics.ballparks.com/1924Paris/ Picture of the Olympic Stadium of Colombes]
* [http://geschiedenis.vpro.nl/themasites/mediaplayer/index.jsp?media=39438124&refernr=39442933&portalnr=4158511&hostname=geschiedenis&mediatype=video&portalid=geschiedenis Original footage] of the opening ceremony of the 1924 Summer Olympics (by [[Polygoon (newsreel)|Polygoon]]) {{in lang|nl}}
* [https://archive.org/details/olympicgameshand00newy/page/n10 Olympic games handbook; containing official records of the seventh Olympiad]

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