![From left to right, in the second row, Baron de Coubertin, Edward VIII (then still Prince of Wales) and the former French athlete Justinien de Clary, during the 1924 Paris Olympic Games.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/DEHDV44OF5FE3ND6BMGB5RJ42M.jpg?auth=23cbdb98540c64078440ac6bc56b3efe176b7fb1dcf705346fa22b8ae689950d&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
The eccentric struggle of 32 writers to win Olympic gold at the Paris 1924 Games
A new essay reconstructs the literary competition of the VIII Olympiad, which brought together Nobel Prize winners on the jury and participants such as Robert Graves and Henry de Montherlant to praise sporting heroism