Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

100 years after the last Paris Olympics, we look back at how the modernist culture of the city influenced the future of sports and the Olympic Games. The exhibition “Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body” reflects on the moment when the traditional and the avant-garde collided, changing perceptions of sporting achievement, celebrity, body image, identity, nationalism, class, race, and gender. It also showcases the remarkable achievements of Cambridge University students, who won a total of 11 Olympic medals for Great Britain in 1924, including the sprinter Harold Abrahams, whose story inspired the film “Chariots of Fire”.