Thousands of athletes, representing 52 nations, are expected to take part in next year's Olympic Games, to be held in France, and chiefly in the Paris district, during May, June and July. The Games will really start at Chamonix in January and February, when the winter sports events will be decided. Then there will be an interval until the Games start at the reconstructed Stadium at Colombes, a northern suburb of Paris, on May 3, with the first of the Olympic Rugoy football matches. Every variety of athletic sport will then be contested either at Colombes or on the Bagatelle polo ground in the Bois de Boulogne, Saint Cloud, Issyles Moulineaux, Versailles, Vin-connes or Argenteuil, or as far away as Meulan on the Seine for yachting. Such sports as polo, rifle shooting, rowing and yachting must of course be reserved for special places, but the great majority of the competitions will take place at Colombes, Every country in Europe except Germany and Russia will be represented. Great Britain will have 500 representatives and the United States is expected to send 250. The American Olympic Committee has chartered a steamer for its athletes and has rented a large house and grounds at Louveciennes for accommodation and final training. Australia will have 40 of her best men in the field, and even Japan, in spite of the disaster which has so greatly handicapped her, will be represented in a branches of sport. One New York newspaper is planning to send no less than eight special correspondents to France for the Games, and the French postal authori-tie: anticipate that the Press messages will total many times the number of words transmitted over the wires during the Cannes Conference.
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