THE CLIMACTIC SCENE FROM THE 1981 FILM CHARIOTS OF FIRE
THE PARIS OLYMPICS OF 1924 HAD A number of innovations that survive today. There was the first use of the motto of (swifter, higher, stronger), the first radio coverage and the first Olympic Village. The first Winter Games had been held in Chamonix five months earlier and it had the first closing ceremony in which the flag of the next host country was flown. Yet as far as was concerned that summer, the Dutch flag should have stayed furled and the Games of the eighth
