As the World Cup arrives in the U.S. at a moment of peak division, people who still believe in the civic potential of 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 International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) recently published two articles involving the long-dead founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin. In one article, Coubertin is quoted ...
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 ...
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, often referred to as the "Father of Olympism", entered the Musée Grevin last Tuesday, just a few weeks before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Sculpted ...
(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 Coubertin first publicly proposed reviving the Olympic Games in 1892. Courtesy of Sotheby's A 14-page manuscript has cost one anonymous buyer the gold—or rather, $8.8 million, a ...
George Hirthler remembers the Lausanne library where, in 1989, he began researching the Olympics to write a bid campaign for Atlanta. Fifteen minutes in, he opens a dusty old book to a photograph of a ...
Like many people, I consider New Year's Day to be an opportune time to reflect on the past while looking to the future. This is especially true as Jan. 1, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth ...
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