ISSUE 163 - July 5, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The World of Topicals:
The Olympics, Part 2
The Modern Olympics
The modern Olympic Games were revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863- 1943), educator and sportsman, son of the French painter, Charles Louis de Fredy Coubertin. In 1894 he sent letters to all the governing bodies of sports with his proposal that the games be revived as an international series of amateur sport competitions.
As a result of his action, the modern Olympics were inaugurated in 1896 at Athens, Greece, and since . . .
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