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COUBERTIN
The founder of the modern Olympics was Baron Pierre
de Coubertin, who was born in Paris, Jan. 1, 1863.
The reviving of the Modern Olympic Games had primarily
one goal, to promote sport and athletic excellence.
On November 25 1892 at the Union des Sports Athlétiques
Congress in Paris, Baron Pierre de Coubertin presented
his idea of a new era in international sport. Sport
was mostly very provincial and more or less not
existing on an international level.
Despite strong opposition in 1892 de Coubertin assembled 12 countries to attend an international congress June 16 1894 for the re-establishment of the Olympic Games. Delegates from Belgium, Britain, France, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States attended the meeting. De Coubertin presented his plan to have the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900, which the delegates first accepted after a long debate. The decision was changed next day when the representatives convinced de Coubertin that Athens was the appropriate city to host the first modern Olympics in two years time. The assembly also agree that the Olympics would move every four years to other great cities of the world.
Apart from the revival of the Olympic Games de Coubertin wrote books and other publications devoted to sport and was also the author of important historical, political and sociological studies. Totally he wrote over sixty thousand pages. Baron Pierre de Coubertin died on 2 September 1937 in Geneva.
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