The shattered fate of Bordeaux athlete Jules Ladoumègue, god of the stadium in the 1930s

Jules Ladoumègue, affectionately nicknamed “Julot”, was born on December 10, 1906 in Bordeaux, in the district of La Bastide. Coming from a modest background, the future long-distance and middle-distance runner, who will be four times champion of France, nineteen times international, six times world record holder and silver medalist at the 1928 Olympic Games, tragically enters life. He never knew his father, a dock worker, who died in the port four months before his birth, crushed by a load of wood while trying to save workers. Two days after Christmas, his mother …

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