Whether you are a big sports fan or an occasional consumer, we all have beautiful sports and Olympic images that we will always keep in mind and that will have marked the world. Tommy Smith and John Carlos on the 200m podium at the 1968 Tokyo Olympics, Usain Bolt’s 100m in Beijing and his world record in 9.58, Teddy Riner and David Douillet becoming two-time Olympic judo champions, Michael Phelps 23rd Olympic title win, Bob Beamon soars higher and further than everyone else to become Olympic long jump champion, Jesse Owens crushing Nazi Germany in Berlin in 1936, Nadia Comaneci achieving technical feats at the 1976 Montreal Olympics… But the Olympic Games are also incongruous images such as the Equatoguinean Eric Moussambani swimming alone in the pool in Sydney 2000, the tears of Derek Redmond supported by his father after his injury in the 400m semi-final at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games or even the two Koreas who paraded together at the 2000 Opening Ceremony in Sydney.
All these moments, but also the more dramatic geopolitical moments such as the numerous boycotts, the attack in Atlanta in 1996 and of course the attack on the Israeli delegation in Munich in 1972, are part of the great history of the Olympic Games.
The next lines of this wonderful and great Olympic history will be written near Paris in a year and a half. Seeing the Olympic Games on its national territory is an opportunity for athletes, for supporters, but also for a large number of local players, including the University of Rouen Normandy.. Several researchers work around the Olympic theme, show appropriate to the subject, students will be involved in the event. That is why the website of the University of Rouen Normandy is preparing to publish a series of articles on the theme of Paris 2024 at the URN.
To start with, Daphné Bolz, university professor in STAPS at the University of Rouen, Normandy, specialist in the history of sports and member of the CETAPS laboratory, talks about the largest sports competition in the world, its history and looks ahead to 2024.
