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Pierre de Coubertin

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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Sport must be accessible to working class youth.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.


— Pierre de Coubertin


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Despite these challenges the USFSA continued its planning for the games adopting in its first program for the meeting eight articles to address only one of which had to do with the Olympics. Young also suggests that the story about Coubertin's having sketched the velodrome were untrue and that he had in fact given an interview in which he suggested he did not want Germans to participate something he later denied in a letter to the Kaiser. Coubertin himself was frustrated by the Greeks who increasingly ignored him in their planning and who wanted to continue to hold the Games in Athens every four years against de Coubertin's wiPierre de Coubertins.

He is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics most notably education and history. Pierre de Frédy Baron de Coubertin (French pronunciation: ​[pjɛʁ də kubɛʁtɛ̃]; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937) was a French educator and historian and founder of the International Olympic Committee.

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