Pierre de Coubertin Olympics

He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was particularly active in promoting the introduction of sport in French schools. His Excellency. The ...

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Born in 1863, Pierre de Coubertin was a champion of sport in education. In 1894 he proposed a revival of the Olympic Games, designating Athens and Paris as ...

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Pierre, baron de Coubertin, French educator who played a central role in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, after nearly 1500 years of abeyance.

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Pierre de Coubertin presented his idea to revive the modern Olympic Games for the first time in public at the 5th anniversary of the Union des Sociétés ...

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Although he had risen to international prominence as he presided over his last Olympic Games, at Paris 1924, he gradually fell into obscurity ...

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He wanted to recreate the ancient Olympic Games, which began in Olympia, Greece, in 776 BC and were held every four years for twelve centuries ...

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At the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition, he organised the world's first Congress on Physical Education and began to build the international network of educators ...

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Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, always envisioned the Games as much more than the sum of their parts.

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Pierre de Coubertin has become known as the founder of the Olympic Movement and restorer of the modern Olympic Games. He was born on 1st January 1863 in Paris ...

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the controversial French founder of the modern Olympics, is proving to be a divisive figure for organisers of the Paris Games.

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