EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games.
This story was published in the Kalamazoo Gazette on July 17, 1900. The story is published as it appears in the newspaper, including errors and language of the time.——Paris, July 16. — Associated Press. — The American athletes continued winning victories at the international contests in connection with the exposition this afternoon.
The crowd was the smallest which has yet attended and mostly composed of Americans, as many foreigners stayed out of today’s events and less interest than usual was manifested in the contests, which were largely among Americans.The first was the.