7 July 1924: The French president and foreign dignitaries, including the Prince of Wales, witnessed the march past of several thousand visiting athletes at the Colombes stadium
Paris, Sunday
The repeated thud of the saluting guns had ceased and the strains of the Marseillaise had died away when a bugle call gave the signal for the march past of the world’s athletes. The elegant stadium at Colombes, not, of course, to be compared with our grandiose affair at Wembley, yet capable of holding sixty thousand spectators, was full to the brim for yesterday’s opening ceremony.
In the tribune of honour M Doumergue, president of the republic, had taken his seat, together with the Prince of Wales as representative of the British empire, Prince Henry, and other notables. Without delay the great defile began.
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