顧拜旦的生平

顧拜旦生平簡介

Pierre de Coubertin President of the IOC from 1896 to 1925:Pierre de Coubertin

Pierre de Frédy,Baron de Coubertin was born on 1 January 1863 at 20,rue Oudinot in

early in life he showed a liking for literature,history and the problems of education and

up the army,abandoning too the political career that was open to him at the age

of twenty-four,Pierre de Coubertin decided to launch a vast movement of educational reform,and

at twenty-five his life work was started.

It is also to him that we owe all the organisation of the Olympic Games,which have

benefited from his methodical and preci mind,and from his wide understanding of the

aspirations and needs of young Olympic Charter and Protocol,as well as the athletes'

oath are his work,together with the ceremonial for the opening and closing of the

rmore,until 1925 he personally presided over the International Olympic

Committee.

The title of Honorary President of the Olympic Games was bestowed on him in 1925 until his

death in was decided that no other President would ever be granted this

revival of the Olympic Games reprents only a small part of the Baron de Coubertin's

from numerous publications devoted to the technique and teaching of sport,he was the author of

important historial,political and sociological works total over sixty thousand pages.

He died on 2 September 1937 in Geneva having spent his entire fortune on his is

considered one of the great men of the 20th accordance with his last wishes,his heart

was interred at Olympia (Greece),in the marble monument commemorating the revival of the

Olympic Games.