![]() ![]() ![]() Plans changed after a speech by Greek representative Dimitrios Vikelas made his plea for Athens to host in 1896. Set to music by Gabriel Faure, it was performed by opera singer Jeanne Remacle.Ĭoubertin felt this lent “a spirit of Hellenism” to the proceedings.Ī document held in the vaults of the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne reveals how he wanted the first modern Olympics to be held in Paris in 1900. The tone was set by a musical rendition of a newly discovered ode by Pindar. His ideas did not immediately bear fruit, but in June 1894 he arranged another even more impressive meeting at the Sorbonne. The manifesto he used in that meeting recently sold for $8,806,500 at auction. It is barely three kilometres away from the University of the Sorbonne, where the meetings to revive the Olympics eventually took place.Īt a meeting in late 1892, he proposed an Olympic revival. It is the home city of Pierre de Coubertin, born at number 20 Rue Oudinot, in the seventh arrondissement on New Year’s Day 1863. It is a city which can lay claim to some of the richest Olympic heritage in the world. That ISOH should celebrate its 30th anniversary in Paris is appropriate. Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee and Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, face the media. ![]()
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