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About the Pierre de Coubertin
Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin (French: [SaRl pjeR d@ fRedi baRo d@ kubeRte]; born Pierre de Fredy; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937), also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and its second president. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was particularly active in promoting the introduction of sport in French schools.
Born into a French aristocratic family, Coubertin became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history. He graduated with a degree in law and public affairs from the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). It was at the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris that he came up with the idea of reviving the Olympic Games.
The Pierre de Coubertin World Trophy and the Pierre de Coubertin Medal are named in his honour.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
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Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
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In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
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The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
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Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
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Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
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Olympism… exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
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Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
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The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
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If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
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Swifter, higher, stronger.
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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
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The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
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All sports for all people.
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The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
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For me sport was a religion… with religious sentiment.
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