Provided the 20-year-old could meet expectations at the 1924 Paris Olympics, ... Weissmuller and Kahanamoku left no doubt they would be on the SS America when it sailed for France.

Paris Olympics in 1924 inspires new exhibition. ... The University of Michigan student wrote the letter to his mother aboard the SS America, as he was about to sail to Paris.

The exhibition will show how the 1924 Olympics was a breakthrough in changing attitudes to body image, identity, class, race and gender, say organisers An exhibition inspired by the Paris Olympic ...