Pierre de Coubertin
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Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee, and its s
Coubertin by the mid-1920s
Pierre de Coubertin as a child (right), with one of his sisters, painted by his father (detail of Le Départ, 1868).
Coubertin in 1921.
International Olympics Committee Headquarters.
Demetrios Vikelas
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Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee, from 1894 to 1896.
Pierre de Coubertin
…Once there, participants divided the congress into two commissions, one on amateurism and the other on reviving the Olympics. A Greek participant, Demetrios Vikelas, was appointed to head the commission on the Olympics, and would later become the first President of the International Olympic Committee. Along with…
Demetrius Vikelas
A portrait of Vikelas by Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos.
Pierre de Coubertin
The International Olympic Committee at the first Olympic Games in Athens. Vikelas is seated in the center