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Auction 29 October 2021 A century of Olympic Games by the L'Equipe photo collection - Paris

Bid on the lot list Boisgirard - Antonini : 29 October 2021 - Un siècle de Jeux Olympiques par le fonds photos L’Equipe - EXPOSITIONS PUBLIQUES -27 Octobre de 11h à 18h28 Octobre de 11h à 20h Commissaires-priseursIsabelle Boisgirard & Pierre-Dominique Antonini1, rue de la Grange Batelière - 75009 ParisTél.: +33(0)1 47 70 81 36 / <a href="mailto:contact@ba-paris.com" target="_blank">contact@ba-paris.com</a><a href="www.boisgirard-antonini.com" target="_blank">www.boisgirard-antonini.com</a>SVV Boisgirard et Associés - N° agrément 2001-022 - RCS B 441 779 196 Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

A century of Olympic Games by the L'Equipe photo collection

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A century of Olympic Games by the L'Equipe photo collection

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Lot n° 1

Antwerp 1920. French delegation...

Antwerp 1920. French delegation at the opening ceremony © Collections L'Équipe 14 August 1920. This was the first time that the French wore the Gallic cockerel at the Olympic Games. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this crest had already appeared...

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Lot n° 2

Grenoble 1968. Opening ceremony...

Grenoble 1968. Opening ceremony © L'Équipe 6 February 1968. "The first great success: the opening ceremony presided over by General de Gaulle", declared "L'Équipe". The French did not want to miss their reunion with the Olympic festival, which the country...

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Lot n° 3

Mexico City 1968. French delegation...

Mexico City 1968. French delegation at the opening ceremony © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 12 October 1968. The first event of the Olympic Games was the parade of delegations at the opening ceremony. According to the report in "L'Équipe", the pop elegance of...

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Lot n° 4

Los Angeles 1984. Opening ceremony...

Los Angeles 1984. Opening ceremony © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 28 July 1984. The Games of the 23rd Olympiad of the modern era were launched in front of 92,000 spectators at the Los Angeles Memo- rial Coliseum and 2.5 billion television viewers. But the welcome...

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Lot n° 5

Albertville 1992. Opening ceremony...

Albertville 1992. Opening ceremony ©Jean-Claude Pichon/L'Équipe 8 February 1992. Like these acrobats, time seemed to stand still in Albertville for two hours. The time of an opening ceremony that invites a world in turmoil (collapse of the Soviet bloc,...

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Lot n° 6

Atlanta 1996. Opening ceremony...

Atlanta 1996. Opening ceremony © Michel Deschamps/L'Équipe 19 July 1996. In Atlanta, where the Olympic Games are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of their rebirth, the spectacle of the opening ceremony does not forget their birth, twenty-seven centuries...

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Lot n° 7

Sydney 2000. Cathy Freeman, opening...

Sydney 2000. Cathy Freeman, opening ceremony © Jean-Louis Fel/L'Équipe September 15, 2000. Cathy Freeman, runner-up in the 400m in 1996, is dreaming of taking revenge on Marie-José Pérec. But we'll see about that later. Tonight, as she lit the Olympic...

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Lot n° 8

Beijing 2008. Opening ceremony...

Beijing 2008. Opening ceremony © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 8 August 2008. It is in this majestic interlacing of steel and concrete, nicknamed the "Bird's Nest", that the XXIX Summer Games begin. China, the host country for the first time, also inaugurated...

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Lot n° 9

Vancouver 2010. Opening Ceremony...

Vancouver 2010. Opening Ceremony © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 12 February 2010. A snowboarder kicks off the Vancouver Winter Games by riding through the Olympic rings. Half an hour earlier, on the giant screen, he was hurtling down a snowy slope so that...

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Lot n° 10

London 2012. Opening ceremony ©...

London 2012. Opening ceremony © Pascal Rondeau/L'Équipe 27 July 2012. Host city of the Olympic Games for the third time after 1908 and 1948, London is honouring national monuments: the Palace of Westminster and Sebastian Coe. Images of his Olympic double...

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Lot n° 11

Rio 2016 © Sébastien Boué/L'Équipe...

Rio 2016 © Sébastien Boué/L'Équipe 12 August 2016. A megalopolis of 6 million inhabitants, Rio de Janeiro is hosting the Olympic Games of the XXXI Olympiad from 5 to 21 August. Brazil thus becomes the first South American country to welcome athletes...

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Lot n° 12

Antwerp 1920. Suzanne Lenglen,...

Antwerp 1920. Suzanne Lenglen, tennis © Collections L'Équipe 24 August 1920. A few weeks after winning Wimbledon for the second time, Suzanne Lenglen won the Olympic title on the grass courts of the Beerschot Tennis Club. The Frenchwoman lost only four...

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Lot n° 13

Tokyo 1964. Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola...

Tokyo 1964. Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Lutteur B, show jumping © L'Équipe 24 October 1964. The Tokyo Games will end in a few hours and France has not won a single gold medal. But Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 54 years old, Olympic champion in 1952, and...

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Lot n° 14

Olympic Games 1964 © L'Équipe Tokyo...

Olympic Games 1964 © L'Équipe Tokyo 1964. Final of the all categories judo tournament. Historic victory of the Dutchman Anton Geesink against the Japanese Akio Kaminaga. Podium. Anton Geesink (Netherlands), Akio Kaminaga (Japan), Ted Boronovskis (Australia)-Klaus...

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Lot n° 15

Mexico 1968. Morelon-Trentin, tandem...

Mexico 1968. Morelon-Trentin, tandem © Robert Legros/L'Équipe October 21, 1968. For a week now, the Agustin-Melgar velodrome has been the playground of two friends who live next door in Créteil. Daniel Morelon, the tall, dark-haired man, and Pierre Trentin,...

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Lot n° 16

Montreal 1976. Marcel Rozier and...

Montreal 1976. Marcel Rozier and Bayard de Maupas, team show jumping © Roger Krieger/L'Équipe 1 August 1976. The last medal of the Games was to be played out between France and Germany in the Olympic Park in Montreal. The French (Hubert Parot on Rivage,...

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Lot n° 17

Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci,...

Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 18, 1976. Time may have passed, the Olympics may have come and gone, the Iron Curtain may have been torn down and teenage girls may have become women, but Nadia Comaneci will always...

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Lot n° 18

Olympic Games 1976 © Robert Legros/L'Équipe...

Olympic Games 1976 © Robert Legros/L'Équipe Montréal 1976. Gymnastics team competition, floor exercises. Nadia Comaneci (Romania), Svetlana Grozdova (USSR), Maria Filatova (USSR), Teodora Ungureanu (Romania). Team competition in gymnastics, floor exercises...

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Lot n° 19

Moscow 1980. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics...

Moscow 1980. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 1980. Nadia Comaneci has grown up. At 18, she is no longer the gifted little girl who had captivated Montreal in 1976, but the boss of the Romanian team against the Soviet and East...

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Lot n° 20

Moscow 1980. Thierry Rey, judo...

Moscow 1980. Thierry Rey, judo © Robert Legros/L'Équipe 1 August 1980. Super-light and super-happy. Thierry Rey is only 21 years old but he fought against the Cuban Jose Rodriguez like an old hand to keep the advantage he had acquired at the beginning...

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Lot n° 21

Seoul 1988. Pierre Durand and Jappeloup,...

Seoul 1988. Pierre Durand and Jappeloup, show jumping © André Lecoq/L'Équipe October 2, 1988. It is Jappeloup who decides. The little black horse had become famous in his own way, in 1984, by refusing an obstacle. In Seoul, he will make an effort... "This...

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Lot n° 22

Seoul 1988. Jean-François Lamour,...

Seoul 1988. Jean-François Lamour, sabre © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 23 September 1988. Sabre au clair, Jean-François Lamour has put things straight. Yes, in 1984, he had won a tournament deserted by the Eastern European fencers because of the boycott. But...

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Lot n° 23

Barcelona 1992. Oscar de la Hoya,...

Barcelona 1992. Oscar de la Hoya, boxing © Jean-Claude Pichon/L'Équipe August 3, 1992. This 19-year-old kid who promised his mother on his deathbed that he would become an Olympic champion is about to keep his promise. Oscar de la Hoya had just beaten...

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Lot n° 24

Atlanta 1996. David Douillet, judo...

Atlanta 1996. David Douillet, judo © Alain de Martignac/L'Équipe July 20, 1996. "It only lasted two seconds, but I felt a ball of energy shoot up from my stomach. Like an explosion." Which found itself on the front page of "L'Équipe" the day after David...

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Lot n° 25

Sydney 2000. Brahim Asloum, boxing...

Sydney 2000. Brahim Asloum, boxing © Michel Deschamps/L'Équipe September 30, 2000. It is this boxer's happiness that bursts onto the front page of "L'Équipe" the day after Brahim Asloum's victory in the flyweight final. France rediscovers that boxing...

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Lot n° 26

Beijing 2008. Julien Absalon, mountain...

Beijing 2008. Julien Absalon, mountain bike © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe August 23, 2008. This is the 101st time that Julien Absalon has crossed the finish line of the mountain bike race as a winner, but until then it was a dream. Is it to make sure that...

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Lot n° 27

Beijing 2008. Roger Federer, tennis...

Beijing 2008. Roger Federer, tennis © Jérôme Prévost/L'Équipe 11 August 2008. Until then, Roger Federer had done little at the Olympic Games other than carry the Swiss flag at the opening ceremony. If he beats Russia's Tsunov here, he will fall to the...

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Lot n° 28

Beijing 2008. Federer-Wawrinka,...

Beijing 2008. Federer-Wawrinka, tennis © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe August 16, 2008. "When I win a singles match, I can't hug anyone because I'm all alone on the court. So, there, for once I could hug someone, I didn't deprive myself." Roger Federer, who...

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Lot n° 29

Beijing 2008. Rafael Nadal, tennis...

Beijing 2008. Rafael Nadal, tennis © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 13 August 2008. Rafael Nadal has already won the French Open and Wimbledon when he enters the Olympic tournament in Beijing. That day, the Spaniard beat Russia's Igor Andreev in the round of...

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Lot n° 30

Atlanta 1996. Laura Flessel, epee...

Atlanta 1996. Laura Flessel, epee © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 13 August 1996. On this incredible face, one does not know what to read: the rage of having won or the fear of defeat. Laura Flessel had just won a close match (13-11) but she would fall in the...

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Lot n° 31

London 2012. Teddy Riner, judo...

London 2012. Teddy Riner, judo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 3 August 2012. The Teddy Riner saga began in 2007. There, at 23, he had already won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and five world titles. But he says it himself, "to be a huge champion,...

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Lot n° 32

London 2012. Rohullah Nikpai,...

London 2012. Rohullah Nikpai, taekwondo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 9 August 2012. Rohullah Nikpai represents the Olympic record of an entire country: Afghanistan. Bronze medallist (-58kg) in Beijing 2008 and then here in London (-68kg), he is perhaps...

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Lot n° 33

Rio 2016. Simone Biles, gymnastics...

Rio 2016. Simone Biles, gymnastics © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 11 August 2016. By dint of seeing her leap and bounce, we tell ourselves that Simone Biles is indestructible. Here she is in Rio, at 19, where she won 4 gold medals (individual and team general...

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Lot n° 34

Rio 2016. Kevin Staut and Rêveur...

Rio 2016. Kevin Staut and Rêveur de Hurtebise, show jumping © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 19 August 2016. Two days after the French show jumping team's fantastic ride, Kevin Staut and Rêveur de Hurtebise find themselves a bit alone... and 22nd in the individual...

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Lot n° 35

Rio 2016. Estelle Mossely, boxing...

Rio 2016. Estelle Mossely, boxing © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe 19 August 2016. It's Estelle Mossely's birthday. For her 24th birthday, she offers herself an Olympic gold medal in the -60kg final, the first for a French boxer, and neither the Chinese Yin...

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Lot n° 36

Rio 2016. Tony Yoka, boxing © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 21 August 2016. "When you work hard to be a champion, the day you do something crazy, you have the right to explode, right?" You bet! The victory of Tony Yoka, 24, in the final of the +91kg class...

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Lot n° 37

Tokyo 2020. Clarisse Agbégnénou,...

Tokyo 2020. Clarisse Agbégnénou, judo. © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 40 x 60 cm

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Lot n° 38

Tokyo 2020. Agbégnénou-Franssen,...

Tokyo 2020. Agbégnénou-Franssen, judo (quarter final). © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 53 x 80 cm

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Lot n° 39

Tokyo 2020. French team, mixed...

Tokyo 2020. French team, mixed team judo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 31 July 2021. Clarisse Agbégnénou, Teddy Riner, Axel Clerget, Guillaume Chaine, Romane Dicko, Sarah-Léonie Cysique are still jumping on the tatami and on the front page of "L'Équipe"....

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Lot n° 40

Tokyo 2020. Karim Laghouag and...

Tokyo 2020. Karim Laghouag and Triton Fontaine, eventing, show jumping © Franck Faugère/L'Équipe 2 August 2021. The horse, Triton Fontaine, is an 11-year-old gelding. The rider, Karim Laghouag, 46, was Olympic champion with the French eventing team...

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Lot n° 41

Tokyo 2020. Sky Brown, skateboard...

Tokyo 2020. Sky Brown, skateboard © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 3 August 2021. "I just want to have fun", Sky Brown used to say. A bit normal, at 13, but skateboarding is now on the Olympic programme and the British-Japanese teenager is already a star...

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Lot n° 42

Tokyo 2020. Luiz Francisco, skateboard...

Tokyo 2020. Luiz Francisco, skateboard © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 5 August 2021. Skateboarding, which became an Olympic discipline in Tokyo, has quickly earned its place. In the curves and bumps of the Ariake urban sports park, the Japanese have won...

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Lot n° 43

Tokyo 2020. Logan Martin, BMX...

Tokyo 2020. Logan Martin, BMX free style © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 7 August 2021. Australian Logan Martin seems to want to add the two wheels of his BMX bike to the Olympic rings imagined by Baron de Couber- tin more than a century ago. This is how...

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Lot n° 44

Tokyo 2020. Final France-Russia...

Tokyo 2020. Final France-Russia (Guyart-Martyanova), women's team foil © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe 29 July 2021. Ysaora Thibus, Anita Blaze, Pauline Ranvier and Astrid Guyart have a sense of history. Even though they were defeated in the final by the...

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Lot n° 45

Tokyo 2020. Final France-Russia...

Tokyo 2020. Final France-Russia (Borodachev-Mertine), men's team foil © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 1 August 2021. Between French and Russian fencers (here Julien Mertine against Kirill Borodachev), it is always a duel at the top. In Tokyo, the two teams...

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Lot n° 46

Tokyo 2020. Erwan Le Pechoux, Maxime...

Tokyo 2020. Erwan Le Pechoux, Maxime Pauty, team foil © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 1 August 2021. Erwan Le Pechoux took the last relay of the last assault of his last Olympic Games, put the last touch... and won his first gold medal. The 39-year-old French...

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Lot n° 47

Antwerp 1920. Men's 3000m team...

Antwerp 1920. Men's 3000m team © Collections L'Équipe August 21, 1920. Rare image of a rare event as the 3000m team race has only been run three times at the Olympic Games, in 1912, 1920 and 1924. Each country can enter five runners and the times of the...

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Lot n° 48

Antwerp 1920. Marathon © Collections L'Équipe 22 August 1920. Starting from the Olympic Stadium, the marathon ran through a city under reconstruction less than two years after the end of the Great War. Antwerp was chosen to host the Games as a tribute...

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Lot n° 49

Paris 1924. Charles Paddock, Harold...

Paris 1924. Charles Paddock, Harold Abrahams, 200m © Collections L'Équipe July 8, 1924. There was revenge in the air at the Colombes stadium during this 200m heat. In the foreground, Charles Paddock, a lump of muscle raised in California, is battling...

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Lot n° 50

Colombes, Maurice Vautier, pole...

Colombes, Maurice Vautier, pole vaulting Collections L'Équipe 22 June 1924. It was on a thin layer of sand and from a height of 3.70m that Maurice Vautier fell at the French Championships qualifying for Paris 1924. On 9 July, with 3.55m, his hopes of...

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Auction 29 October 2021 A century of Olympic Games by the L'Equipe photo collection - Paris

A century of Olympic Games by the L'Equipe photo collection

Antwerp 1920. French delegation...

Antwerp 1920. French delegation at the opening ceremony © Collections L'Équipe 14 August 1920. This was the first time that the French wore the Gallic cockerel at the Olympic Games. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this crest had already appeared...

Grenoble 1968. Opening ceremony...

Grenoble 1968. Opening ceremony © L'Équipe 6 February 1968. "The first great success: the opening ceremony presided over by General de Gaulle", declared "L'Équipe". The French did not want to miss their reunion with the Olympic festival, which the country...

Mexico City 1968. French delegation...

Mexico City 1968. French delegation at the opening ceremony © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 12 October 1968. The first event of the Olympic Games was the parade of delegations at the opening ceremony. According to the report in "L'Équipe", the pop elegance of...

Los Angeles 1984. Opening ceremony...

Los Angeles 1984. Opening ceremony © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 28 July 1984. The Games of the 23rd Olympiad of the modern era were launched in front of 92,000 spectators at the Los Angeles Memo- rial Coliseum and 2.5 billion television viewers. But the welcome...

Albertville 1992. Opening ceremony...

Albertville 1992. Opening ceremony ©Jean-Claude Pichon/L'Équipe 8 February 1992. Like these acrobats, time seemed to stand still in Albertville for two hours. The time of an opening ceremony that invites a world in turmoil (collapse of the Soviet bloc,...

Atlanta 1996. Opening ceremony...

Atlanta 1996. Opening ceremony © Michel Deschamps/L'Équipe 19 July 1996. In Atlanta, where the Olympic Games are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of their rebirth, the spectacle of the opening ceremony does not forget their birth, twenty-seven centuries...

Sydney 2000. Cathy Freeman, opening...

Sydney 2000. Cathy Freeman, opening ceremony © Jean-Louis Fel/L'Équipe September 15, 2000. Cathy Freeman, runner-up in the 400m in 1996, is dreaming of taking revenge on Marie-José Pérec. But we'll see about that later. Tonight, as she lit the Olympic...

Beijing 2008. Opening ceremony...

Beijing 2008. Opening ceremony © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 8 August 2008. It is in this majestic interlacing of steel and concrete, nicknamed the "Bird's Nest", that the XXIX Summer Games begin. China, the host country for the first time, also inaugurated...

Vancouver 2010. Opening Ceremony...

Vancouver 2010. Opening Ceremony © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 12 February 2010. A snowboarder kicks off the Vancouver Winter Games by riding through the Olympic rings. Half an hour earlier, on the giant screen, he was hurtling down a snowy slope so that...

London 2012. Opening ceremony ©...

London 2012. Opening ceremony © Pascal Rondeau/L'Équipe 27 July 2012. Host city of the Olympic Games for the third time after 1908 and 1948, London is honouring national monuments: the Palace of Westminster and Sebastian Coe. Images of his Olympic double...

Rio 2016 © Sébastien Boué/L'Équipe...

Rio 2016 © Sébastien Boué/L'Équipe 12 August 2016. A megalopolis of 6 million inhabitants, Rio de Janeiro is hosting the Olympic Games of the XXXI Olympiad from 5 to 21 August. Brazil thus becomes the first South American country to welcome athletes...

Antwerp 1920. Suzanne Lenglen,...

Antwerp 1920. Suzanne Lenglen, tennis © Collections L'Équipe 24 August 1920. A few weeks after winning Wimbledon for the second time, Suzanne Lenglen won the Olympic title on the grass courts of the Beerschot Tennis Club. The Frenchwoman lost only four...

Tokyo 1964. Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola...

Tokyo 1964. Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Lutteur B, show jumping © L'Équipe 24 October 1964. The Tokyo Games will end in a few hours and France has not won a single gold medal. But Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 54 years old, Olympic champion in 1952, and...

Olympic Games 1964 © L'Équipe Tokyo...

Olympic Games 1964 © L'Équipe Tokyo 1964. Final of the all categories judo tournament. Historic victory of the Dutchman Anton Geesink against the Japanese Akio Kaminaga. Podium. Anton Geesink (Netherlands), Akio Kaminaga (Japan), Ted Boronovskis (Australia)-Klaus...

Mexico 1968. Morelon-Trentin, tandem...

Mexico 1968. Morelon-Trentin, tandem © Robert Legros/L'Équipe October 21, 1968. For a week now, the Agustin-Melgar velodrome has been the playground of two friends who live next door in Créteil. Daniel Morelon, the tall, dark-haired man, and Pierre Trentin,...

Montreal 1976. Marcel Rozier and...

Montreal 1976. Marcel Rozier and Bayard de Maupas, team show jumping © Roger Krieger/L'Équipe 1 August 1976. The last medal of the Games was to be played out between France and Germany in the Olympic Park in Montreal. The French (Hubert Parot on Rivage,...

Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci,...

Montreal 1976. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 18, 1976. Time may have passed, the Olympics may have come and gone, the Iron Curtain may have been torn down and teenage girls may have become women, but Nadia Comaneci will always...

Olympic Games 1976 © Robert Legros/L'Équipe...

Olympic Games 1976 © Robert Legros/L'Équipe Montréal 1976. Gymnastics team competition, floor exercises. Nadia Comaneci (Romania), Svetlana Grozdova (USSR), Maria Filatova (USSR), Teodora Ungureanu (Romania). Team competition in gymnastics, floor exercises...

Moscow 1980. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics...

Moscow 1980. Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics © Robert Legros/L'Équipe July 1980. Nadia Comaneci has grown up. At 18, she is no longer the gifted little girl who had captivated Montreal in 1976, but the boss of the Romanian team against the Soviet and East...

Moscow 1980. Thierry Rey, judo...

Moscow 1980. Thierry Rey, judo © Robert Legros/L'Équipe 1 August 1980. Super-light and super-happy. Thierry Rey is only 21 years old but he fought against the Cuban Jose Rodriguez like an old hand to keep the advantage he had acquired at the beginning...

Seoul 1988. Pierre Durand and Jappeloup,...

Seoul 1988. Pierre Durand and Jappeloup, show jumping © André Lecoq/L'Équipe October 2, 1988. It is Jappeloup who decides. The little black horse had become famous in his own way, in 1984, by refusing an obstacle. In Seoul, he will make an effort... "This...

Seoul 1988. Jean-François Lamour,...

Seoul 1988. Jean-François Lamour, sabre © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 23 September 1988. Sabre au clair, Jean-François Lamour has put things straight. Yes, in 1984, he had won a tournament deserted by the Eastern European fencers because of the boycott. But...

Barcelona 1992. Oscar de la Hoya,...

Barcelona 1992. Oscar de la Hoya, boxing © Jean-Claude Pichon/L'Équipe August 3, 1992. This 19-year-old kid who promised his mother on his deathbed that he would become an Olympic champion is about to keep his promise. Oscar de la Hoya had just beaten...

Atlanta 1996. David Douillet, judo...

Atlanta 1996. David Douillet, judo © Alain de Martignac/L'Équipe July 20, 1996. "It only lasted two seconds, but I felt a ball of energy shoot up from my stomach. Like an explosion." Which found itself on the front page of "L'Équipe" the day after David...

Sydney 2000. Brahim Asloum, boxing...

Sydney 2000. Brahim Asloum, boxing © Michel Deschamps/L'Équipe September 30, 2000. It is this boxer's happiness that bursts onto the front page of "L'Équipe" the day after Brahim Asloum's victory in the flyweight final. France rediscovers that boxing...

Beijing 2008. Julien Absalon, mountain...

Beijing 2008. Julien Absalon, mountain bike © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe August 23, 2008. This is the 101st time that Julien Absalon has crossed the finish line of the mountain bike race as a winner, but until then it was a dream. Is it to make sure that...

Beijing 2008. Roger Federer, tennis...

Beijing 2008. Roger Federer, tennis © Jérôme Prévost/L'Équipe 11 August 2008. Until then, Roger Federer had done little at the Olympic Games other than carry the Swiss flag at the opening ceremony. If he beats Russia's Tsunov here, he will fall to the...

Beijing 2008. Federer-Wawrinka,...

Beijing 2008. Federer-Wawrinka, tennis © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe August 16, 2008. "When I win a singles match, I can't hug anyone because I'm all alone on the court. So, there, for once I could hug someone, I didn't deprive myself." Roger Federer, who...

Beijing 2008. Rafael Nadal, tennis...

Beijing 2008. Rafael Nadal, tennis © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 13 August 2008. Rafael Nadal has already won the French Open and Wimbledon when he enters the Olympic tournament in Beijing. That day, the Spaniard beat Russia's Igor Andreev in the round of...

Atlanta 1996. Laura Flessel, epee...

Atlanta 1996. Laura Flessel, epee © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe 13 August 1996. On this incredible face, one does not know what to read: the rage of having won or the fear of defeat. Laura Flessel had just won a close match (13-11) but she would fall in the...

London 2012. Teddy Riner, judo...

London 2012. Teddy Riner, judo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 3 August 2012. The Teddy Riner saga began in 2007. There, at 23, he had already won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and five world titles. But he says it himself, "to be a huge champion,...

London 2012. Rohullah Nikpai,...

London 2012. Rohullah Nikpai, taekwondo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 9 August 2012. Rohullah Nikpai represents the Olympic record of an entire country: Afghanistan. Bronze medallist (-58kg) in Beijing 2008 and then here in London (-68kg), he is perhaps...

Rio 2016. Simone Biles, gymnastics...

Rio 2016. Simone Biles, gymnastics © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 11 August 2016. By dint of seeing her leap and bounce, we tell ourselves that Simone Biles is indestructible. Here she is in Rio, at 19, where she won 4 gold medals (individual and team general...

Rio 2016. Kevin Staut and Rêveur...

Rio 2016. Kevin Staut and Rêveur de Hurtebise, show jumping © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 19 August 2016. Two days after the French show jumping team's fantastic ride, Kevin Staut and Rêveur de Hurtebise find themselves a bit alone... and 22nd in the individual...

Rio 2016. Estelle Mossely, boxing...

Rio 2016. Estelle Mossely, boxing © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe 19 August 2016. It's Estelle Mossely's birthday. For her 24th birthday, she offers herself an Olympic gold medal in the -60kg final, the first for a French boxer, and neither the Chinese Yin...

Rio 2016. Tony Yoka, boxing © Franck...

Rio 2016. Tony Yoka, boxing © Franck Seguin/L'Équipe 21 August 2016. "When you work hard to be a champion, the day you do something crazy, you have the right to explode, right?" You bet! The victory of Tony Yoka, 24, in the final of the +91kg class...

Tokyo 2020. Clarisse Agbégnénou,...

Tokyo 2020. Clarisse Agbégnénou, judo. © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 40 x 60 cm

Tokyo 2020. Agbégnénou-Franssen,...

Tokyo 2020. Agbégnénou-Franssen, judo (quarter final). © Alain Mounic/L'Équipe Single later print. Edition 1/1. Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 53 x 80 cm

Tokyo 2020. French team, mixed...

Tokyo 2020. French team, mixed team judo © Stéphane Mantey/L'Équipe 31 July 2021. Clarisse Agbégnénou, Teddy Riner, Axel Clerget, Guillaume Chaine, Romane Dicko, Sarah-Léonie Cysique are still jumping on the tatami and on the front page of "L'Équipe"....