Paris Olympic venues celebration marks a century of iconic sites, highlighting the rich history and legacy of the Olympic Games.
After a gap of 100 years, the Olympics return to Paris, but, with two exceptions, not to the arenas used in 1924 -- even though several still exist, usually disguised by the names of later French sports heroes. A century ago, just as this summer, the main Olympic stadium was in the suburbs to the north of the city. Then, Colombes hosted a string of sports and was also the site of the Olympic village. The remodelled stadium will now host the hockey.
The stadium, later renamed after Racing rugby player Yves du Manoir, who died in 1928 at the controls of his plane, hosted a World Cup final, became the home of the French cup final and the national football and rugby teams. Brazil legend Pele scored a hat-trick there against France in 1963. It was supplanted by the new Parc des Princes, nearer the centre of Paris, in 1972, although the unrenovated stadium remained home to the Racing and Racing 92 rugby teams until 2017.
Now a municipal pool, with a retractable roof and small stands down either side, it is being refurbished to act as a training pool for swimming and triathlon this summer. The track cycling in 1924, as in the second-ever Olympics in 1900, was held at the Velodrome de Vincennes in the park in the southeast corner of Paris. The track opened in 1898, with steel-beamed grandstands designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The infamous Velodrome d'Hiver, in the suburb of Pantin, home of boxing, fencing, weightlifting and wrestling in 1924, was used to hold 13,000 Jews rounded up by French police in July 1942 before they were transported to concentration camps. It remained in use as a sports venue after the war but caught fire in 1959 and was demolished and replaced with a block of flats.
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