Talk:Pierre de Coubertin
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Baron Pierre de Coubertin has never been the father or founder of the Olympic Games. However, Coubertin was the founder of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.
The Olympic Games was originally founded to honour the God Zeus in Ancient Greece. It was re-established in modern times as a national Olympic Games in Athens, Greece in 1859 (by Evangelis Zappas) and by the foundation of the Wenlock Olympian Society in Much Wenlock in the United Kingdom (by Dr William Penny Brookes) in 1860.
Coubertin visited Brookes in Much Wenlock and was so impressed by the Olympian Games that he was inspired to found the International Olympic Committee.
Yours faithfully,
Founder http://www.coubertin.com/ Coubertin.com http://www.zappas.org/ Zappas.org
- Unless you can provide references... --euyyn 19:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Correct title
As he was (I assume) a baron, shouldn't we have to name it "Pierre, Baron de Coubertin"? Well, in fact we don't mention a single time in the article that he were a baron... Is it false? Beacuse I think almost everybody believes it. --euyyn 19:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
He was a Baron, as everybody knows. Here's explained the origin of his title (in spanish). --euyyn 12:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] zappas.org
What's with all the "see www.zappas.org" and stuff like "without knowing, understanding, or appreciating"? There is no contention that Pierre de Coubertin founded the IOC and that he was successful in bringing the modern Olympic Games to life. I would think that a better way to tell the story of another attempt to bring the games back by someone else, would be to:
- create an article on it,
- have a mention to it in this article and
- have a new section on it in the Olympic Games article.
--Kimon 16:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- I removed all of that garbage, and encourage other editors to do the same when it (inevitably) reappears. It appears to be someone with a very clear agenda of publicizing a particular point of view. To anyone promoting the Zappas theory, please find a neutral, non-biased external source -- in accordance with numerous Wikipedia policies -- or your edits will continue to be reverted. --SuperNova |T|C| 08:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
