What sporting event happened in the summer of  1924 where Australia competed.
Summer Olympic Games
Title: AFL Grand Final
Passage: The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September or the first Saturday in October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, to determine the Australian Football League (AFL) premiers for that year.  The game has become significant to Australian culture, spawning a number of traditions and surrounding activities which have grown in popularity since the interstate expansion of the Victorian Football League in the 1980s and the subsequent creation of the national AFL competition in the 1990s.  The 2006 Sweeney Sports Report concluded that the AFL Grand Final has become Australia's most important sporting event, with the largest attendance, metropolitan television audience and overall interest of any annual Australian sporting event.
Title: Australia at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States.  This was the first and last time Australia competed in ice hockey and nordic combined.  While ice hockey gave Australia its only top ten finish in this games, the team lost all of their matches, conceding double-digit goals.  Australia also competed in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and figure skating, where Mervyn Bower and Jacqueline Mason came twelfth in the pairs event.
Title: Australian Masters Games
Passage: The Australian Masters Games is a biennial sporting event and the largest multi-sport participation sporting event in Australia.  Garry Daly as President of the Confederation of Australian Sport proposed the concept of Masters Games to the Northern Territory government.  It went on to establish the Central Australian Masters Games in 1986.  The first Australian Masters Games were held in Hobart, Tasmania in 1987.  The Australian Masters Games event is owned by the Confederation of Australian Sport and state governments and cities bid to host the Games.
Title: List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming
Passage: Australia has competed in swimming at the Summer Olympics since the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, after only sending a runner, Edwin Flack to the 1896 Summer Olympics.  Frederick Lane was Australia's sole swimming representative at the 1900 games, winning two individual gold medals.  Women's events were added at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, with Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie being Australia's first female representatives, winning gold and silver in the 100 m freestyle, which was the first women's event on the program.  At the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics, Australia competed as Australasia, sending a combined team with New Zealand.  The table includes Malcolm Champion, a New Zealander who was part of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team which captured gold in 1912.
Title: Australia at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.  Although Australia did not officially participate in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, athletes were encouraged to boycott by the government, and Australia competed under the Olympic Flag.  120 competitors, 92 men and 28 women, took part in 92 events in 17 sports.
Title: Australia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece.  It was Australia's 12th year of participation at the Paralympics.  The team included 151 athletes (91 men and 60 women).  Australian competitors won 101 medals (26 gold, 39 silver and 36 bronze) to finish fifth in the gold medal table and second on the total medal table.  Australia competed in 12 sports and won medals in 8 sports.  The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird.  The Australian team was smaller than the Sydney Games due to a strict selection policy related to the athletes' potential to win a medal and the International Paralympic Committee's decision to remove events for athletes with an intellectual disability from the Games due to issues of cheating at the Sydney Games.  This was due to a cheating scandal with the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where it was later discovered that only two players actually had intellectual disabilities.  The IPC decision resulted in leading Australian athletes such as Siobhan Paton and Lisa Llorens not being able to defend their Paralympic titles.
Title: Australia at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.  Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Title: Australia at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes).  Four months before the beginning of the 1984 summer Paralympics, the University of Illinois terminating their contract to hold the Games.  Australia won 154 medals - 49 gold, 54 silver and 51 bronze medals.  Australia competed in 9 sports and won medals in 6 sports.  Australia finished 8th on the gold medal table and 7th on the total medal table.
Title: Summer Olympic Games
Passage: The Summer Olympic Games (French: "Jeux olympiques d'été" ) or the Games of the Olympiad, first held in 1896, is an international multi-sport event that is hosted by a different city every four years.  The most recent Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The International Olympic Committee organizes the games and oversees the host city's preparations.  In each Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals are awarded for second place, and bronze medals are awarded for third; this tradition began in 1904.  The Winter Olympic Games were created due to the success of the Summer Olympics.
Title: Australia at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
Passage: Australia competed at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Netherlands.  It was the 6th Summer Paralympic game in which Australia competed.  Australia won 55 medals 12 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze medals.  Australia competed in 10 sports and won medals in 6 sports.  It finished 14th on the gold medal table and 9th on the total medal table.
Australia at the 1924 Summer Olympics Summer Olympic Games