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National Post
National Post
25 Apr 2024


NextImg:Olympics truce? Paris 2024 Games will take place, as usual, during a time of war

Mark Golden, a University of Winnipeg professor who died in 2020, was a leading Canadian historian of athletics in the classical world.

Before London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics — its first since the postwar austerity games of 1948 — he published a paper, previously presented to fellow classicists at Ancient Olympia itself, titled “War And Peace In The Ancient And Modern Olympics.” It remains an eye-opener today, because it debunked but didn’t quite kill an Olympic legend that refuses to die.