Interalled Games
The Interallied Games were a multisport event that, like the Olympic Games in Paris, were held from June 22 to July 6, 1919 in the newly built Stade Pershing . Only athletes from the allied victorious states took part, most of whom came in uniform and often lived in barracks in and around Paris. Only active and former soldiers of the war were admitted. The stadium was largely built by American soldiers in collaboration with the YMCA . Around 1500 athletes from 18 nations (out of 28 invited) took part in 19 sports. Poland and the USSR were missing, among other things, because of the Polish-Soviet War . The stadium in the Bois de Vincennes was then given to the French people as a gift and is still used today as a recreational sports facility. Due to the restriction to Allied athletes, German (and Austrian) participation was excluded from the outset. The Olympic program was used, supplemented only by hand grenade throwing and an expanded number of shooting competitions.
literature
- Daniel Bell (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games . McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4 .
- Albert R Mann, Cornell University Library. The inter-allied games, Paris, 22nd June to 6th July, 1919. http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014114353/cu31924014114353_djvu.txt
- Thierry Terret: Le Comité International Olympique et les “olympiades militaires” de 1919. Olympika 1999, 69-80; http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1999/olympika0801d.pdf
Individual evidence
- ^ Thierry Terret, Les Jeux interalliés de 1919: sport, guerre et relations internationales . Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 2003. ISBN 2747536947
- ^ Arnd Krüger : Germany and the Olympic Movement (1918-1945). Horst Ueberhorst (Ed.): History of physical exercises , Vol. 3/2, Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz, 1982, 1026-1047.