The sports day initiator of the Olympic Games receives a wax figure
April 6, 2024, 12:27 p.m
Lionel Messi is cast in wax, as is Kylian Mbappé of course. For the Olympic Games in Paris, a visionary and controversial Baron complements the exhibition in the Musée Grevin on Boulevard Montmartre. Pierre de Coubertin, inventor of the modern Olympic Games, will receive a monument in the wax museum of his hometown before the opening ceremony on July 26th.
Pierre de Coubertin in 1896.
(Photo: IMAGO/TT)
The figure of the Frenchman born in 1863, founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is currently being created in the museum workshop in the 13th arrondissement. De Coubertin, second IOC president and himself a gold medalist in Stockholm in 1912 in the “literature” discipline held at the time (winning work: “Ode to Sport”), campaigned for the revival of the Olympic Games, designed the design of the Olympic rings and published them the headquarters of the IOC during the First World War from Paris to Lake Geneva to Lausanne.
Today Coubertin, who died in 1937 a year after the Nazi Berlin Games, is viewed controversially. The educator and historian described himself as a “fanatical colonialist” and was strictly against the participation of women in the Olympic Games. A year before his death he said: “The only Olympic hero is the individual male athlete. Therefore: no women. No teams. Just sport.”
2024-04-06 13:37:35
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