Renewed Olympics?
My teacher told us the olympics were stopped at one point. Who was the person that started them up again? Why were they start up again? This was something that struck my curiousity, and it's been bugging me, anybody happen to know?
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The man that started the Olympics up again is Baron Pierre de Coubertin a French citizen. He was a very active sportsmen who held the believe that sports where a moral force that could have a positive effect on mankind. He firmly believed that an Olympic Games held every for years would be very effective in accomplishing this goal. You could call him an idealist.For example chivalry was one such ideal he believed the Olympic Game would promote around the world. Meaning there would be a world wide truce during the time the games where held. In summary the Olympics were supposed to be more then just the actual games, but a positive social force improving the morals and intellect of the athletes.
At the age of 31 , Secretary General of the French Sports Association, he made the announcement for the revival of the Olympic Games nobody really took this very seriously. In 1894 in the city of Paris he founded the IOC and two year latter in 1896 the first Olympic Games where held.
He was a very determined man ,which probably has to do with his background. His father expected him to have a military career. Coubertin rejected this as well as a career in politics to focus on improving French society through a better education society. Education for him was the key to future of society.
As part of his research he took a trip to England in order to learn about sports in English schools. While in England he met William Penny Brookes a man that wanted to recreate the Olympic Games and had a great influence on Coubertin. In fact William Brookes had organized the Munch Wenlock Olympian Society Games- athletic contests held every year since 1850 in his home town. They had a great influnce on how the 1896 Olympics were organised.
What is important: William Penny Brookes had the ideas, but Baron Pierre de Courbertin was the one that started them up again do to his wealth and the prominence of his family. With out his help Brookes vision would have never been realized. Brookes never did get to see the Olympics he died before the 1896 games.
Why where the 34 delegates that attended the 1894 IOC meeting so excited to start the Olympics? In the 1890's a great deal of excavation was taking place in Greece, thus sparking a great deal of excitement of all things Ancient Greek. In fact the delegates were so excited they voted for the 1st modern games to be held in Athens 1896 not Paris in 1900.
- April 4,1896 Athens Greece
- 241 male athletes ( 0 women) from 14 nations participated.
- 9 sports Swimming, Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Shooting, Tennis, Weightlifting and Wrestling.
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Yeah for a while they were just greeks then they stopped them for over 1000 years plus they were stopped during the 1st and 2nd world warsMore Questions & Answers...