The 1920s were a time that the Olympics really became an event for the entire world. According to John Horne in Understanding the Olympics, “after Athens 1896 the next three Olympics were mostly for trade fairs but it was not until the 1920s that the profile of the events began to grow” (Horne). What this means is the Olympics really did not become a spectator event until the twenties. However, this event is a popular event throughout the world. Chris Hallinan says that, “Olympics in the 1920s were largely a Euro-centric enterprise but India’s embrace of Olympism in the 1920s was almost simultaneously accompanied by a powerful push for diffusing the Olympic ideal in Latin American and South-East Asia”(169). This time was very popular for the
