One thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and not one more.
Since 1896, the year of the first edition of the modern Summer Olympic Games, in Athens, and until Tokyo in 2021, 1,266 French athletes have stood on the podiums.
In his remarkable work
Summer Olympics.
All the French medalists from 1896 to the present day
(Talent Sport), Stéphane Gachet has managed to list all the heroes of French sport by giving each one a biography.
A fantastic work as a historian for this person responsible for territorial sporting events who began his work... in 2005.
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Paris 2024: the map of Olympic sites
It all started, one day, with a simple search for his namesake, a certain Jean Gachet, a medal-winning boxer in 1920. Since then, the author has gone back through the archives, unearthed incredible forgotten stories and found traces of athletes that the time had ended up completely erasing from our memories.
More than six hundred pages to peck through, infinitely rich and full of anecdotes, these incredible stories came from…
Jules Dubois, the missing navigator
Stéphane Gachet…
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