Not necessarily very oldThis is from 1924 in Chamonix
>>153608966no
here's a pity reply for you, fren
Different world, almost feels alien.
>>153609097Shit, they had ice vroom vroom back in the day
Bello
>>153610213ty
>>153609219>>153609351>>153609485>>153609676kino
Oslo Olympics
>>153608966Based thread, thanks anon.Look forward to being in your cunt in 2030
Cortina 1956
these are so cool
No kid you take the stairs and you carry your own skis
French athletes in Chamonix 1924
1956 - 825 athletes2026 - 2871 athletes
>>153620782Because are all white
>>153620414SOVL>>153620783We need to bring bobsled back to this without the autistic german engineering
I've always wondered why no one uploads footage of olympic games from the 70s and 80s. Surely it was televised but I can never find it.
>>153608966You look at those old photographs and realize how much snow they had back then.
>>153621049French? Italien.
>>153624626French indeed, you can see the cockerel
>>153623814Yes
Great pics anon, I didn't see you made a thread
>>153620782Because it's winter
tip top kino photos actually
1936
>>153609706way more soul than modern bobsled
>>153632249Actual kino
I fucking hate jews
>>153622748World pop in 1956 - 2.8 BillionWorld pop in 2026 - 8.3 Billion
>>153634001Iktf
>>153620875And now stairs climbing gets you medals
>ski jumping with 1920s healthcareSo if you fell you were just crippled or dead?
>>153638993Outdoor ice events are so lovely.
>>153638959Just don’t fall
>>153638959Healthcare made great progress with WWI
>>153638959They didn't go as fast and as far back than either so it balances out.
>>153639002agreed, such a nice atmosphereNow for some 1928 St. Moritz
>>153639049Just reminds me of what things can be like here if it ever freezes.Being out on the ice, on a sunny day, it feels so good.
>>153639071skating on rivers must be so fun, I haven't skated outside on natural ice since I was a child
>>153639084I have not skated a lot, last time was 2012-13 and we had ice some time after that too but not a lot, unfortunately it just doesn't get cold enough.But it's a lot of fun, usually there's a lot of people out and everyone is nice. Being out in nature like this is so nice, and in the towns there's a lot going on on the ice.Maybe I'll get a kayak and explore these places that I want to explore on ice.
>>153639100>unfortunately it just doesn't get cold enoughman fuck the gay-ass winters that we get now, cold enough to be miserable but not icy and snowy enough to do all of the fun wintery stuff>Maybe I'll get a kayak and explore these places that I want to explore on ice.that's a splendid idea
>>153639123Funny, sounds like you described our winters. Too cold to be comfortable, not cold enough to have fun. We had one week of intense snow this year, I loved it but it was over before I knew it.Mostly it's just a grey, soggy mess. I'm sure that if it would snow more often maybe even cross country skiing could see some action over here.Also, I'm departing a bit from the olympics but I'll post some old pics related to skating, because that's got a lot to do with why we are still the top skating nation on the planet.
>>153639141when things froze over nicely did people also use skating as a way to move around, like going from a village to the nearby one down the river?
>>153639168I reckon, before mechanized transportation, it was definitely one of the faster ways to get around, you could cross a lake in a speed faster than walking and in a straight line, travel across canals going faster than walking, so I think it was an important for 'getting around'. Even just pushing a little sled around on ice is a comfy way to travel.The ice always draws out a lot of people either way, but I think for 'fun' is the biggest factor, even 400 years ago.
Impressively sharp for how old they are
>>153639064Would love to see more of this, actually.
Bread status confirmed ALIVE, will post some more, ty for the other pictures! Italianon notably>Anvers/Antwerpen 1920, marathon
1924 Summer games opening ceremony in Colombes near Paris
French athlete (runner) Charles Poulenard before going to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm
>>153639389forgot pic oops
Another French athlete (runner) participating in the 1912 Olympic games, Georges Malfait
Anvers 1920
>>1536238141964 but it might scratch your itchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHt0eAdCCns
Cross-country
Look at those brooms.
>>153639429Wiki:>Cross country running at the Summer Olympics was held at the multi-sport event for men only from 1912 to 1924. During its brief tenure as an Olympic event, it featured on the Olympic athletics programme. Medals were awarded on an individual race basis as well as a national team points basis.>Traditionally a winter sport, the scheduling of cross country within a summer event caused organisational issues. The sport was dropped after the 1924 Olympics, when most of the runners dropped out due to extreme heat and pollution from a nearby power station.[1]>Over its three appearances at the Olympics, Finnish runners dominated the event. Tying in with the emergence of the Flying Finns, Hannes Kolehmainen won the inaugural event, then Paavo Nurmi won the following two editions, winning gold medals both individually and in the team race. Paavo Nurmi is on the picture
>>153639443The 1924 winners
Marathon 1924. Abin Steenros, the Finnish winner, is pictured running
>>153639444More cross-country from 1924
>>153639453Fashionable too.>>153639444This makes me a little melancholic to be honest, seeing the people watching, the officers (are they?) standing there enjoying themselves, just watching a guy run through the field.Quaint, and in a strange way familiar, reminding me of local cycle tournaments in my town, back in the 90s.
>>153639469This seemed wild
>>153639475>the officers (are they?)Look like police agentsI get your feeling, it's like a glimpse of a not-so-ancient lost world we'll never know again>1924 opening ceremony
Paavo Nurmi the legend in 1920
Tommy Thomson, winner of the 110m hurdles, signs autographs
Technically not Olympics but a funny picture. Before the start of the 1912 qualifying race in France
>>153639444>>153639469>>153639476Another picture from 1924's cross-country
>>153639552so simple and earthly. love it.
>>153639566
Hannes Kolehmainen, the first Flying Finn, wins the 1920 marathon
>>153639581
kino
Cycling 1924
>>153609004I hate to say it but AI has made me very skeptical of old images like this. Like the quality is too high so it almost feels either entirely AI generated or like it went through some upscaling/denoising/cleaning up etc
>>153639620Pictures are from the National Library of FranceTaken by photographers of the Agence Rol, which existed from 1904 to 1937They are glass plate negativesA few which seemed damaged might have been restored like this one >>153639463But they were uploaded online a decade ago so it wasn't done with the latest AI-tools if anythingThere were high quality pictures and even video footage from that era, that's not a big surprise
>>153639621
1908 US Olympic MarathonersCompetitors walk to the start in front of Windsor Castle. Pictured are Americans Alton Welton (34), Johnny Hayes (26), Tom Morrissey (23) and Mike Ryan (31). Italian Dorando Pietri (19) lurks in the background. Photo courtesy of Michael Bowlby
>>153639678oops wrong image
1920 again
>>153639686nice
>>153639620Don't underestimate the things they were capable of doing with boxes, lenses, and glass negatives. It was definitely not something for the average joe but a clean sharp image was definitely possible.
>>153639581I wanted to make a joke about him being only a 25 year old whippersnapper here but man was actually 31
two of the marathon runners at the 1904 olympics
>>153608966>ChamonixYeesh, they were naming things for that comic even back then
>>153639889Huh?
1920
Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000m
Japanese team, 1924
Water-polo final 1924, France-Belgium, won by France.Btw if you need more info about the pictures posted earlier in the bread you can ask
>>153639609>>153639621>>153639665More cycling from 1924
French team, military patrol, 1924>>153609605This was Finland>>153609648And Italy
>>153639989Czechoslovakians
>>153639573More cross-country from 1924.Ville Ritola, another Finn, finished 2nd behind Nurmi.
>>153640007And this is Nurmi
Olympic Village 1924
>>153639989French team again, another view
>>153639989Military patrol? Was that an olympic element?
So much SOUL. Untainted by money and modern bullshit. What a wonderful time. Thank you OP.
>>153640032The ancestor of biathlon, yes
Speed skating, start of the 10km race
1920. Photograph must have been proud.
>>153640086This is Clas Thunberg btw. Winner of three gold medals at Chamonix, as well as a silver and a bronze. He won two more gold medals in 1928.
>>153640111And of course he's Finn. Finland was the main character in this era.
Norwegian skiing team
Might post more later
>>1536098705man bob. Madness
>>153640132thanks for all the pics, things were so much more soulful back then that it's not even funny
>>153634088Grim beyond belief
>>153639123There are cities where it gets cold enough
>>153640159How do we cope?
so we all ageee medals from back then are asterisks right? from which edition do we start counting actual medals?
Notice the lack of young people, wiped out by the war
>>153639621>>153640051>>153609260>>153609537what are the white dots?
>>153640390Snow
>>153640116Paavo Nurmi of the ice fields.No more success for us.
>>153640390maybe they were in sleeves that caught some humidity along the border or something like that
good thread.
>>153641573Olympic plunger?
>>153642155Bavarian curling/Eisstockschiessen
>>153640390Cum stains.
>>153639942It was an Asterix joke
>>153609323This gentleman is probably 19 years old
>>153642581I appreciate the joke and sorry for ruining it but he is 30 in that picture (Alfred Berger, born 1894, at the 1924 olympics).
>>153639453More people would watch if they just mandated a suit and normal brooms. Aesthetics and vibe matter a lot, figure skating or equestrian events wouldn't draw half the viewership if they wore a tracksuit. None of the people in these commissions know how to market a sport.
>>153642707Snooker also still has some dress requirements, I think it helps a lot. Even if it's all surface level stuff, it helps make things seem more important on a higher level.
>>153642707>More people would watch if they just mandated a suit and normal broomslol that's not true
>>153642805Sure it is. Add a bit of romance, like old people playing petanque on a square in france. It grabs more attention than 10 people in "National Team Outfit #3". America is the country of the spectacle, you should understand this.
>>153642861It would not make any noticeable difference in how many people watch, you are delusional
>>153642870Alright, remove the retard playing organ during ice hockey then. Or is that suddenly different?
>>153640390Something that must happen sometimes during digitization, I suppose.>>153642499V cool
>>153641573Nice picture, not from Olympics it seems but looks cool>1924
>>153639789Here's one more
A few from Anvers 1920
>>153642936Not from olympics? Man, I got the picture from an article talking about sports that were olympic events at one point. And it had this pic of dildocurling, naturally I had to post it.
>>153642975Apparently the picture was from the 1958 European champhionships, curling was not an olympic sport at that time, it came back in Nagano officially>Another fine specimen of a Finnish athlete
Percy Hodge, winner of the 3000m steeple in 1920
>>153642505Acktshually, it’s pronounced "Shamony" without the final x, unless you want to signal your interlocutor that you are a monchu from Paris
Cycling 1924>>153643014kek that's trou
Some more curling (1924)
>>153642523Progression in running, especially distance running, is so crazy. This guy literally almost died trying to finish his race and this year in the marathon in my city 314 people finished with a faster time than him.
Skating rinkGreat landscape
>>153643041Doesn't help that they were also brandy to hydrate, lmao.
American Frank Foss beats the Pole Vault WR (4.09m) in 1920
>>153640016Another Paavo Nurmi pic from 1924 cross-countryLove those
>>153642538the Australian guy gave his gloves to the other 2 by the way, and the Australian federation killed his career for that
Richmond Wilcox Landon, USA gold medalist in high jumping 1920
Czechoslovakians shooting, military patrol, 1924
>>153643138
>>153609187Same gentleman, Gaston VidalI also have a picture of him playing bowls in Paris in 1928 lol. He was a player for sure
do you have pics from live pigeons shooting?
Athletes drinking, 1924 marathon
>>153643174I looked it up since it's from 1900 and I don't have pictures from that timeThese are three gentlemen that took part in the event>Maurice Faure, Léon de Lunden & Donald Mackintosh
>>153643174>>153643233Wew, thanks to you I just found treasures of old pictures from 1894 to 1913Photographer's name is Jules Beauhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Beau>French football team 1900
Swimming 1924
>>153639969Here's another picture of the Japanese team
1924 marathon
French swordsmen team, before going to the 1908 London Olympics
you now remember the 1906 Olympics that were retconned out of existence by the IOC decades later
>"Opening of the Antwerp Olympics (1920), release of pigeons to announce the opening of the Olympics to all nations"
>>153643324A few more
>>153643464
>>153643479
US Rugby team 1924
Wireless telegraphy operators, aboard a balloon to announce the result of the football final in 1924 (Uruguay-Switzerland, won by Uruguay)
>>153643587Picture of the game
>>153643587
French athletes, opening ceremony, Anvers 1920
>>153643647Danish women
Finns skiing
>>153643668I am enjoying this thread and have posted a handful of photos
>>153643709Swiss
Jacob Thams, Norwegian winner of ski jumping in 1924, pictured with a cow
US women swimmers, 1924From left to right: (1) Gertrude Ederlé, (2) Euphrasia Donnelly, (3) Hélène Wainwright, (4) Sibille Bauer, (5) Agnès Geroghty, (6) Doris O'Mara, (7) Mariechen Veshelau [i.e. Wehselau], (8) Ruth Thomas, (9) Florence Chambers, (10) Mathilda Schewrick, (11) Ethel McGary
Quite the soulful kino, if I may say so.
>>153608966Criterion did a box set of all the Olympic films from 1912-2012 and the trailer is the most aesthetic thing I've ever seenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkTyFzdoZw
>>153643767another shot
>>153643816Thanks!
>>153643668This is the best thread in the entire catalog right now.
>>153643816I was going to make fun of you but that was legitimately cool as shit
Gymnastics event, Paris 1900 (at the velodrome of Vincennes)
110m hurdles, Paris 1900
Paris 1900. Before the marathon starts
A team of Swedes and Danes beat the French (and 1 Colombian for some reason) at the tug of war event, Paris 1900
>>153644073Picture of the finish
American Richard Sheldon, Shot put gold medalist (and bronze for discus) at the 1900 Paris Olympics
Rudolf Bauer, discus gold medalist, Paris 1900. World record holder at that time (36.04m)
cool thread, these old pictures always look so melancholic, all these dead people felt the same feelings as us once upon a time.
Alright, not Olympics but this looks too cool not to post, jump by American daredevil Max Schreyer in Paris in 1906
>>153644229Here's the landingI will try to find more tomorrow if the bread is still up
Bowmen and crossbowmen parade before the 1900 Olympics contestgnight
video so you can see the state of the cinder track in the rainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEBEK8_vqc
>>153644243>>153644229That ramp alone gives me anxiety, I am not the daredevil type... obviously.
These boomers would completely mog if they could compete in the modern olympics. The current generation is a bunch of wimps.
>>153620414That looks so cool
>>153639392>a chicken
>>153638987Its too bad they would never do an outdoor venue like that again. It would probably be pretty neat.
>>153639453Why do people way back then wearing hats like that look fine but if you saw somebody today wearing that you would think they had a mental disability.
>>153645306some old geezers wear similar hats here.
>>153643085Yeah, it's gorgeous.
>>153609029They should go back to this sled design and let the other team members be more involved
Perhaps not old enough for the thread but always liked the old Wassberg pictures
>>153609029Im sure they were going like 40mph slower but just from the pics it looks like it would be a good watch. I always wonder how modern athletes being dropped into using old equipment like that would do.
>>153609029>The French bobsled over several times during training, and the four French athletes were taken to the hospital. During their first run, the French bobsledders competed while intoxicated, one of the four teammates, the Marquis d'Aulan, then owner of a champagne house, having generously provided them with alcohol beforehand.
>>153639389>>153639396Proper French names. Love it.
>>153644394Looks tough indeed
>>153639989>This was FinlandPretty obvious from uniforms, they won silver. Lieutenant in picture is Väinö Bremer, aviation pioneer who flew around the world when it was actually a feat. He also participated in summer Olympics in Paris in modern pentathlon, finishing 7th. Dude retired as major and died in plane crash on 1964.
>>153643668Fuck you man, this thread is magical.
>>153643164I have that same broom in the closet, passed over generationsExcellent thread Franceanon, you've already posted what little I have.
>>153642870>>153642861I would watch if it was held outdoors. don't know about the brooms>>153642499this is cool as heck>>153644187>>153644141these guys are probably only like 6 foot but they look like giants with all the manlets in the background>>153644243I'm more impressed with the rampgreat thread tbdesu
>>153623814>I've always wonderedBecause they show 'Kaitlin' Jenner in his true heroic form. Fucker was my hero, then got Hollyjewed, then trooned out. Cowinky-dink? Much of doubting!
>>153643101>no reception mattressThat's rough
nice thread
>>153608966ski jumping with actual skis, not comically oversized float plane pontoons built for no purpose but keep ski-jumpers aloftski jumpers are the hockey goalies of skiing
>>153639678>>153639686When I was a kid I read about this race. Pietri (a pastrycook by profession) was first to the stadium, but was disoriented - so some stewards physically helped him to the finish line. Hayes, who was right behind him, protested the help and got the gold, but Pietri got a special trophy from the organizers (not the IOC) anyway as there was some doubt as to whether he could have managed to right himself and get to the finish line before Hayes without help.
Redd*t thread
>>153651720best thread on here all year. so what does that mean?
>>153609296>>153609838Flapper courtship
>>1536438233 7 11 9 10 6 4 5 8 1 2
>>153609004>>153639620i think this one looks so weird because everyone's looking in random ass directions
>>153643816those match cuts of 30s footage to 70s footage to modern footage are fucking sick
There has never been a more kino Olympic event and there never will be
>>153645246weather too variable, and back then indoor wasn't an option anyway because you need powerful refrigeration units to keep an indoor rink cold enough.
>>153639396>can make out the shape of his dick and balls
>>153652835>ynr remember this led to Mossad gunning down an innocent man and his pregnant wife in Lillehammer, being caught by norwegian police and having their entire western european spy network busted open because one of the "operatives" was claustrophobic and ratted everything out in return for a bigger prison cell.
>>153643823one in the middle packing some nice phartmeat>>153651930
>>153609537Biathlon would be so much cooler with full bore rifles
>>153643024>>153639979>>153639984>>153639665>>153639621>>153639609notice how these bikes don't have gears and probably don't have freewheel hubs either. they're racing fixies on cobble and dirt roads for dozens of miles. ironman cycling
>>153654072Can't expect that kind of fun outside of the US.
Stockholm 1912. Finnish prodigy Kolehmainen >>153639581 beats Frenchman Jean Bouin at the 5000m. Bouin died two years later, the 29th of September, 1914, struck by shrapnel, at the age of 25. Several streets and a huge stadium in Paris are named after him.
>>153655389Several streets across France*>Chamonix 1924 again
>>153610269Yes!
>>153655448
>>153655457
Norwegian Thorleif Haug, won three gold medals in 1924.
The Swiss won the gold medal in bobsleigh, but apparently they had an accident at some point. In the picture one of the men is visibly unwell. This picture >>153609732 shows him being carried shortly after
>>153655466Such a handsome little automobile!
>>153640156The Belgians were 5!
>>153655568It seems to have been the only nation with a 5-man bob>>153655550Indeed
Norwegian Jacob Tullin Thams, ski jumping gold medalist in 1924. He later also won a medal in the summer games in 1936, a rare feat, in sailing
Swiss & Poles
>>153655629
>>153651872
>>153655651
>>153655479same guy
>>153655586the 5 Belgian madmen
11-year-old Sonja Henie. Finished 8th in 1924, 1st in 1928, 1932 and 1936.
>>153655770
>>153655535Swiss men after their victory
>>153655788
>>153655750
USA-Canada hockey final, already posted a few pics
>>153654105yeah, they were monstersthat'll be all for me for today, see you tomorrow maybe
>>153638993Did the Netherlands already exist at that time ?
>>153639966>Having been a pack a day cigarette smoker, Guillemot died of lung cancer in Oradour-Saint-Genest at the age of 75.Dude ran a sub 15 5k while smoking a pack a day. >Guillemot then took the silver medal in the 10,000 m behind Nurmi. The final of the 10,000 m was brought forward by three hours at the request of King Albert of Belgium, which Guillemot was only informed of after eating a large lunch. Suffering from stomach cramps and wearing shoes that were two sizes too large (as his own shoes had been stolen), Guillemot finished 1.4 seconds behind Nurmi in second place.kek old olympics were true kino
>>153652835That was something
>>153656349Wew, this made me want to read more about him
