From Paris to Paris. 100 years of the White and Reds in the Olympic Games
- Number of pages: 108
- Language: Polish
- Condition: new.
- The history of the Polish team's participation in the Summer Olympic Games 1924-2024. Facts, trivia, photos, statistics etc.
CONDITION: NEW
Year of publication: 2024
Number of pages: 108
Paper: chalk paper
Colour: yes
Description: Fans Guide prepared by the editorial team of the "Przegląd Sportowy" newspaper, which presents the hundred-year history of Polish athletes taking part in the Summer Olympic Games in the years 1924-2024. In separate texts, enriched with many archival photos, medal classifications, a list of Poles' medals and numerical summaries for individual games, the history of the participation of Polish Olympians in subsequent summer games is described, starting from Paris in 1924 and the debut of the Poles, and ending with the announcement of the Paris Games for a hundred years. Later. The texts recall many distinguished Polish athletes, such as Halina Konopacka, Janusz Kusociński, Zygmunt Chychła, Józef Schmidt, Jerzy Kulej, Waldemar Baszanowski, Irena Szewińska, Jerzy Pawłowski, Józef Zadęzki, Witold Woyda, Kazimierz Deyna, Bronisław Malinowski, Władysław Kozakiewicz, Andrzej Wroński, Waldemar Legień, Renata Mauer, Robert Korzeniowski, Otylia Jędrzejczak, Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz, Tomasz Majewski and Anita Włodarczyk. The story behind the fact that Poles did not take part in the games in Los Angeles in 1984 and the games organized in prison camps by Polish soldier-athletes during World War II were also described. The last page contains the all-time medals table of the 1896-2021 Summer Olympic Games.