Published: February 3rd, 2022,
Last updated: February 3rd, 2022
The Olympics and media always went hand in hand. This was already the case at the very first Olympics of the modern era in 1906 when correspondents telegraphed the results and their impressions to the world. Even back then, it made little sense to hold a global sporting event only for local spectators. And the media always reported a lot about the host country: About the party atmosphere in Athens and the nightly torchlight processions, but also about the organizational chaos. Back in 1924, there were already 1,000 journalists on-site in Paris.