Pierre de Coubertin was a co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Athens hosted the first ever Olympic Games in 1896. The action-packed fortnight at the Rio Olympics finally ended on ...

A sand sculpture of Pierre de Coubertin, by Maaike Huizinga, in the 'Travemuende Olympic Stadium,' Luebeck (Germany), Tuesday, July 6, 2004. HERIBERT PROEPPER / AP The Chapelle de l'Epiphanie in the 7 ...

Citius, altius, fortius. For 130 years it has been the Olympic motto — faster, higher, stronger.

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 ...

Every spring, workshops open their doors just a crack, workbenches are revealed, and raw materials speak — whether wood, ...

Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, always envisioned the Games as much more than the sum of their parts. “Olympism,” as he coined it, was a new type of religion – one shorn of gods, ...

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 original Olympic Games manifesto, written in 1892 by French aristocrat, educator and athletics advocate Pierre de Coubertin which outlines his vision for reviving the ancient Olympic Games as a ...

World still benefiting from vision of modern Olympic Games’ founder By Jacques Rogge Like many people, I consider New Year’s Day to be an opportune time to reflect on the past while looking to the ...