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 ...

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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. “Olympism,” as he coined it, was a new type of religion – one shorn of gods, ...

In 1913, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, created one of the most recognizable logos in the world. The symbolism of the five colored interlocking rings, representing ...

Pierre de Coubertin was a co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Athens hosted the first ever Olympic Games in 1896. The action-packed fortnight at the Rio Olympics finally ended on ...

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(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) — ...

Pierre de Fr¨¦dy, Baron de Coubertin was born on 1 January 1863 at 20, rue Oudinot in Paris. Very early in life he showed a liking for literature, history and the problems of education and sociology.