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A century ago, Andrade and Uruguay made the Paris Olympics a global first | Jonathan Wilson
In June 1924, L’Auto, the French sportspaper that had launched the Tour de France, ran a large portrait on its front page. This was the Olympic Games of the Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi and his five gold medals; of Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell, whose …