[HN Gopher] The Art of Roland-Garros
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       The Art of Roland-Garros
        
       Author : pentagrama
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2025-07-14 23:40 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.garros.gallery)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.garros.gallery)
        
       | esafak wrote:
       | Joan Miro's '91 poster immediately made me recall the Turespana
       | logo which, sure enough, is also his.
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       | https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/1991-roland-garros-c...
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turespa%C3%B1a#/media/File:Sol...
        
       | atan2 wrote:
       | Love the favico.
        
       | woli10 wrote:
       | This is great. Would love to see this for the other grand slams.
       | Also for F1.
        
         | Infernal wrote:
         | Far from exhaustive, but this is one of the best collections of
         | official F1 event posters I could find in one spot. Would love
         | to see the whole library as well.
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         | https://arteauto.com/collections/automobile-posters-from-197...
        
       | phtrivier wrote:
       | Roland-Garros, along with the Tour de France, is such a strong
       | part of French culture.
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       | Summer really "starts" when young people pretend to study for the
       | "baccalaureat" exam, but are really just napping in front of a
       | boring RG game (where the French players loose in the end).
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       | Then it "peaks" when old people pretend to understand cycle
       | racing, but are really just napping in front of a boring race
       | (where the French racers are ridiculous in the end.)
       | 
       | And yet, we watch.
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       | For a while, we watched because, well, TV would stop all regular
       | programming to play the endless boring games and endless boring
       | races, so we had no choice.
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       | Now, we have the choice, and yet... we watch.
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       | It still fascinates me. After all this years of knowing the
       | winner from the very beginning of the competition, we still
       | pretend.
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       | "The glorious _certitude_ of sport."
        
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