To close the Paris 2024 Games, Hugo Sport, official publisher of the event for four years, is thinking big. The official souvenir book of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is due out on November 6 and has a record print run of 200,000 copies.
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The book benefits from an exclusive partnership with AFP and offers content of more than 400 photographs retracing the highlights of the global event.
The Hugo Sport publishing house acquired the license for the Paris 2024 Games four years ago. With The official souvenir book of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, The publisher hopes to “make a big splash and see it become the best-selling sports book.” beautiful work of 3kg, sold for 45 euros, will appear in parallel with a smaller book: Highlights of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Less expensive, this one will be sold in supermarkets.
Other unofficial works will also be arriving in bookstores in the coming months, such as The Team: the book of the year 2024to be published on December 5, 2024 by Solar editions, which offers a sports review of the year 2024, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, but also the Tour de France, the Euro football championship, etc.
Publications of a more historical nature should also be noted:
Olympic Games: 115 magical moments by Alberto Bertolazz, Stefano Fonsato And Alex Tacchini (Nuinui) to be released on October 24, 2024. 120 moments that have marked the history of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. From the end of the 19th century to recent competitions, the photographs allow us to relive the secrets, anecdotes and behind-the-scenes of the competitions. Each chapter includes a QR code to access online videos.
The Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024: a global adventure by Patrick Clastres (Presses universitaires de Rennes) to be published on October 24, 2024. The story of the origins of the Olympic Games as a project for international peace and a comparison of the contexts of the 30 summer editions carried out which reflect the international climate of the different eras. The angles of study are in particular the imbrication of international and sporting contexts or the opening ceremony as a spectacle of the national novel of the organizing country.
