Michael Beloff

Will the Olympics ever be politics-free?

Despite Baron Coubertin’s ideals, nationalistic friction at the Paris Games in 1924 had already prompted a Times headline: ‘Olympics doomed’

Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. [Getty Images]
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