Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) was a French aristocrat and lawyer whose studies of ancient Greece and Rome led him to a lifelong appreciation of the Olympic Games. In 1874, when de Coubertin was 11, Germany began a six-year excavation of ancient Olympia. Out of the ground came 40 monuments, 130 statues and bas-reliefs, 6,000 coins, 13,000 bronze …
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