On November 25, 1892, Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, learned the hard way that it really is the taking part that counts. The day had been meticulously planned. After years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) recently published two articles involving the long-dead founder of the modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

PARIS – Ever wondered why French is spoken during medal announcements at the Olympic Games? The truth is that while the ancient Olympics originated in Greece, its modern incarnation is very much a ...

Though gold, silver, and bronze medals get all of the glory, there's another Olympic award that's even harder to come by. The Pierre de Coubertin medal, named after the founder of the modern Olympics, ...

The International Olympic Committee opposed Tempting Brands’ application for PIERRE DE COUBERTIN for menswear in New Zealand and Australia IPONZ found that the IOC had failed to establish that there ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...