A century on, Paris cherishes a few golden Olympic venues

From athletics to hockey A century ago, just as this summer, the main Olympic stadium was in the suburbs to the north of the city. Then, Colombes hosted a string of sports and was also the site of the Olympic village. The remodelled stadium will now host the hockey. The site was a horse racetrack from 1883. By 1924, one of the elite private Paris sports clubs, Racing Club de France, had leased the land. They offered to "build a 60,000-seat Olympic stadium on the site and be reimbursed afterwards from the proceeds of the Olympics"...