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A sand sculpture of Pierre de Coubertin, by Maaike Huizinga, in the 'Travemuende Olympic Stadium,' Luebeck (Germany), Tuesday, July 6, 2004. HERIBERT PROEPPER / AP The Chapelle de l'Epiphanie in the 7 ...

France has always prided itself on honouring its pioneers and visionaries, but the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympic Games in 1894 is proving a controversial figure for the organisers ...

French nobleman Baron Pierre de Coubertin was such a driving force in the revival of the modern Olympics that it is tempting to consider how he would have reacted to the inclusion of the new sports ...

EXCLUSIVE: With just over two months to go before the kick-off of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris this July, South Africa’s Distant Horizon will be touching down in Cannes with two ...

(The Conversation) — Pierre de Coubertin hoped to channel the best of the ancient ceremonies into a new tradition that could foster both national pride and international harmony. (The Conversation) — ...

The original Olympic Games manifesto, written in 1892 by French aristocrat, educator and athletics advocate Pierre de Coubertin which outlines his vision for reviving the ancient Olympic Games as a ...

World still benefiting from vision of modern Olympic Games’ founder By Jacques Rogge Like many people, I consider New Year’s Day to be an opportune time to reflect on the past while looking to the ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics signal a homecoming for the modern Games, but you’d be forgiven for not realising. Set up in the 1890s, the Olympics have Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin to thank for their ...

The Olympic Manifesto, an 1892 speech by a French aristocrat that outlined the vision and revival of the games, fetched $8.8 million at auction Wednesday. The handwritten 14-page manuscript by Pierre ...

Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, always envisioned the Games as much more than the sum of their parts. “Olympism,” as he coined it, was a new type of religion – one shorn of gods, ...