The Green Museum France has announced that modern Olympic A wax statue of the controversial sports founder will be placed there.
On 1863 Paris A statue of French-born Pierre de Coubertin will be unveiled on July 26 ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games.
The sculpture is being produced in the museum’s workshops in the 13th district of the French capital.
The French aristocracy has always been a champion of education and sports and in 1894 proposed the revival of the ancient Olympic Games.
The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, with over 200 male athletes from 14 countries participating.
Coubertin died in Switzerland at the age of 74 in 1937, a year following the Nazi Germany-sponsored Olympic Games, which he had not participated in.
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Baron is now seen as a controversial figure due to his racist and anti-feminist views.
Coubertin described himself as a ‘obsessed colonialist’ and believed that women should be excluded from the Olympic Games.
The ban on women’s participation reflected the prejudices of the era, including that ‘athletes might lose their femininity or become infertile.’
He argued that holding the Olympics with women would be ‘impractical and uninteresting.’
Coubertin said a year before his death ‘The only true Olympic hero is the individual male athlete. So no women, no team, no sport.’
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2024-07-05 02:53:18
