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15 hours ago · Pierre de Coubertin, a French historian, founded the IOC in 1894. The first Olympics were in Athens (1896) and Paris (1900). He designed the rings representing five continents for the 1912 Games ...
1 day ago · Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement , which encompasses all entities and individuals involved in the Olympic Games.
4 hours ago · Pierre de Coubertin was born into an aristocratic French family in 1863. As a young man, he was deeply influenced by the educational reforms in England and the United States. He believed that sport had the power to develop moral character and social reform. This belief would shape his lifelong pursuit of reviving the Olympic Games. Coubertin ...
1 day ago · À 94 ans, Léon Lewkowicz a porté la flamme olympique dans les rues de Paris. Ce rescapé du camp d'Auschwitz-Birkenau a participé au relais sur les lieux mêmes de l'emplacement du Vél d'Hiv ...
4 hours ago · The Olympics only came back in 1893, when a French Baron, Pierre de Coubertin, started a revival of the games. He became known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. Getty Images
1 day ago · The Sorbonne University Auditorium is where Pierre de Coubertin gave his speech over a hundred years ago, proposing the revival of the Olympic Games, and where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was later founded. "Every experience is different.
4 hours ago · And how fitting that the Château de Versailles, originally a royal hunting lodge, will stage the equestrian events. Jumping, dressage and cross-country eventing will all be set in the palace gardens, alongside the Grand Canal, just where the spectacular fireworks party was held to celebrate the wedding of the teenagers Louis (later Louis XVI) and Marie Antoinette in May 1770.
