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Vintage poster for the 1924 Paris Olympics showing three athletes raising their arms, with text. Harlingue / Roger Viollet via Getty Images. Franck Fife / AFP via Getty Images.
Whimsical costumes abounded at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. By Nate Jones. Published on February 7, 2014 09:00AM EST. ... as this beautiful Art Nouveau poster demonstrates.
The first-ever Winter Olympics poster A poster for the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France, January–February 1924. Designed by Auguste Matisse, the poster was published by a railway ...
The winter sports were popular, so in 1924 an International Winter Sports Week was held in Chamonix, France. Those competitions are considered the first Winter Olympics, but they were not as big ...
A poster hyping the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. About 5,000 copies were produced. ... Figure skaters at the 1924 winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, January 30, 1924.
Paris hosted the Winter Olympics in 1900, and the 1924 Summer Olympics and Chamonix held the 1924 Winter Olympics. The 2030 Winter Games will return to France, with the games being held in the ...
Another poster publicising the Winter Olympics in 1924 Henie moved to American and became a Hollywood superstar who famously had an affair with boxer Joe Louis. Britains’s only gold came in the ...
This July 15, 1924 file photo shows the opening of the 1924 Olympics at Colombes Stadium, Paris, as competing athletes lined up on the field and the flags of all the competing nations formed a ...
The 1924 Olympics featured 11-year-old Norwegian skater Sonja Henie, and although she did not win any medals at those Games, she went on to win gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936. Currently, an athlete ...
Arctic blast from the past: What athletes looked like in 1924 as Chamonix in France held the FIRST Winter Olympics. By DAMIEN GAYLE . Published: 06:15 EDT, 15 February 2014 | Updated: 06:51 EDT ...
Still, the Winter Olympics were underway, adding more sports to the Games, and especially more sports for women. Over the years, women were allowed to compete in skiing (starting in 1936), luge ...
Athletes wear suits and ties and smoke pipes in amazing photos of first ever Winter Olympics in 1924. Mark Fleming; Published: 10:00, 3 Feb 2022; Updated: 11:33, 3 Feb 2022; ...