Paris overturned the Olympics’ Nazi traditions. L.A. 2028 can follow its example.

Trisha Urmi Banerjee and Nathaniel Zetter teach literature and visual culture at the University of Cambridge. The Olympic flag has passed to Los Angeles for the next Summer Olympics in 2028. Now the new organizers must decide whether to carry forward one of Paris 2024’s most remarkable — and unappreciated — achievements: overturning traditions first created by the Nazis for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

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