“I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.”

— Pierre de Coubertin

Stated in the year before he died, as quoted in "The Olympics, Sports and Religion — Is There a Conflict?", in Awake! magazine (8 September 2000)

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Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian 1863–1937

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