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They Wish You Were Born In Minnesota Episode 13: Satanic Olympics? Was Covid Successful? RFK jr statement.

Sit back and relax to this episode on all things Olympics related. From the original Olympics to who funded Pierre De Coubertin’s Olympic anti Christian project. We then talk about Covid’s impact 6 years later and our take on RFK jr’s reaction to Trumps new legislation for weed killer companies. En…

The birth of the modern Olympics

Roh Jeong-tae The author is a writer and senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research. Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) was an idealist. Like many aristocrats and intellectuals of 19th-century Europe, he was drawn to the culture of ancient Greece. When German archaeologists…

How did the modern Olympics begin?

Get ready to race into the biggest sporting event in history! Did you know that the ancient Olympic games were actually dead and buried for 1,500 years? That is, until a French historian named Pierre de Coubertin had a wild, giant idea to bring them back! Join Mira and Finn on History's Not Boring …

美文阅读 | 体育颂 Ode to Sport (顾拜旦)

Opening Quote Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. (Nelson Mandela) Classics Recited Ode to Sport Pierre de Coubertin The Battle for the South Pole Stefan Zweig

Luz Long: The German Who Hugged Jesse Owens in Front of Hitler

There is film of it. On August 4, 1936, in a stadium holding 110,000 people, a German long jumper named Luz Long lost the Olympic final to a Black American from Alabama — and got up, walked over, and embraced him. Then the two of them left the field arm in arm. That happened. Nobody has ever disput…

The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | Let the Games Begin | 2

In 1904, St. Louis was thrust into the national spotlight, as it played host to both the World’s Fair and America’s first Olympic Games. After a bitter fight over which American city would host, Olympic founder Pierre De Coubertin had disavowed the St. Louis games entirely, passing the torch to ama…

The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | A Tale of Two Cities | 1

In the late 1800s, European fascination with the culture of ancient Greece, and a growing interest in physical education and fitness, led to the idea of resurrecting the Olympic Games of antiquity. A French nobleman named Pierre de Coubertin took up the cause, and under his leadership, the first in…

The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | Let the Games Begin | 2

In 1904, St. Louis was thrust into the national spotlight, as it played host to both the World’s Fair and America’s first Olympic Games. After a bitter fight over which American city would host, Olympic founder Pierre De Coubertin had disavowed the St. Louis games entirely, passing the torch to ama…

The Fight for the First U.S. Olympics | A Tale of Two Cities | 1

In the late 1800s, European fascination with the culture of ancient Greece, and a growing interest in physical education and fitness, led to the idea of resurrecting the Olympic Games of antiquity. A French nobleman named Pierre de Coubertin took up the cause, and under his leadership, the first in…

Human Experiments_ Trafficked Athletes _ Poisoned Runners_ America_s 1st Olympics __Dark Summer

They called it America's first Olympics. But the 1904 St. Louis Games were less a celebration of sport than a grotesque carnival of human experimentation, racial pseudoscience, and deadly incompetence. The marathon alone was a medical catastrophe: 32 men started, only 14 finished, and the winner cr…