Game on! With the Olympics and Paralympics being held in Paris this summer, French museums have been inspired to present exhibitions dealing broadly with sports in an effort dubbed the Cultural Olympiad.
During all of the years that the Olympics gave out medals in arts, not just athletics 鈥 and if you didn鈥檛 know about that, the rest of this article may hold more surprises 鈥 the pinnacle came in Paris 100 years ago this summer.