Photos: What It Looked Like When Paris Hosted the Olympic Games in 1900

The fittest, quickest, and most limber in the world will descend upon Paris—whether the locals like it or not—in three weeks, as the 2024 Summer Olympics officially kick off.

This isn’t the first time, however that the French capital city has played host to the Olympics. In 1900, the Games of the II Olympiad found a home in the City of Love as part of the World’s Fair.

But like many new ventures, the early iteration...