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Show PREPARING TO MAKE PARIS OLYMPIC CITY Would Like to Have Big Meet Every Four Years. Campaign Inaugurated by Sporting Papers to Prove That Moving About of Games in Different Countries' Is Wrong. France Is preparing to make Paris the Olympic city, where, every four years in a gigantic stadium, magnificent magnifi-cent and permanent, athletes from all parts of the world will compete in the quadrennial Olympic games instead of taking place In various cities of Europe Eu-rope and America. The Union of Sporting Federations In France is behind be-hind this movement. A press campaign by Paris sporting papers is being waged to prove the moving about of the Olympic games from city to city and from country to country every four years is all wrong. If the present system of allotting the Olympic games to cities and not to countries Is maintained every capital of every state in the Union of the United Uni-ted States has a right to have its Olympic games as well as Antwerp, the newspapers argue. The question of the awarding of the 1924 Olympic games should have been settled in Antwerp, but owing to the large number of cities claiming the honor it was decided to delay the solution solu-tion of the problem until the Lausanne congress in June, 1921. It is safe to say that the proposed plan will not meet with the approval of the international Olympic committee, commit-tee, which is composed of representatives representa-tives from all the nations of the world interested In athletics. Paris would be an ideal place to hold the Olympic games, as the French are great lovers of athletics and turn out in large numbers for all sporting events, and they have the facilities for housing and feeding the visiting athletes and the thousands who would visit Paris to witness the games, but nevertheless It would be bad1 judgment judg-ment to submit to the plea to hold these games In Paris instead of following fol-lowing the present plan. Baron de Coubertin of France, the president of the international Olympic committee, is responsible In a large measure for the revival of the modern Olympic games, and the plan of holding hold-ing the games In a different country every four years was his Idea, and it Is doubtful if there' will ever be any change so long as he Is at the head of the committee. |