Portrait of Pierre de Coubertin

COUBERTIN:BEYOND THE OLYMPIC GAMES

A pedagogue, a historian and a builder of the future.

My unwavering faith in youth and the future remains the guiding principle of my work.

Pierre de Coubertin
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The man
we think we know

Pierre de Coubertin
  • 1863Born in Paris
  • 1894Founding of the IOC
  • 1896Athens Olympic Games
  • 1937Died in Geneva

Most people know Pierre de Coubertin as the reviver of the Olympic Games. Yet this achievement represents only part of his vision.

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The Altis: the ideal city

Coubertin dreamed of an ideal city: the ALTIS. A human chivalry founded on eurythmy, this pursuit of harmony between the different dimensions of existence.

The Altis, the ideal city
SPORT
ARTS
LITERATURE

The OSE Triple Project echoes this same intuition.

3

The existential accord

It is everyone's duty to save their humanity by taking responsibility for their own power to evolve.

Inner alignment
Personal responsibility
Power to evolve

A principle that resonates with OSE's Alignment Principle.

4

Olympism:
an attitude, not a system

The Olympic idea is not a system, but a spiritual and moral attitude.

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The historian of humanity

Universal History by Pierre de Coubertin

Universal History (1926-1927)

4 volumes

All past influences all future, and no future can be built while disregarding the past.

Understanding the past to illuminate the future: a conviction at the heart of OSE.

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After the IOC:
continuing the educational mission

The Universal Pedagogical Union (UPU)

After his presidency of the IOC, Coubertin devoted his energy to the education of young people and to educational cooperation between peoples through the UPU and the International Bureau of Sports Pedagogy (BIPS).

Because the future of humanity is shaped through education.

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What OSE Takes From Coubertin

Education

Sport, the arts and literature in service of the harmonious development of the individual.

Personal Evolution

Everyone is responsible for their own power to evolve and for safeguarding their humanity.

Friendship Between Peoples

Olympism as a path to mutual understanding and peace.

Trust in Youth

Youth carries the future and deserves trust, respect and guidance.

Youth in motion
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A Phrase for the 21st Century

My unwavering faith in youth and the future remains the guiding principle of my work.

More than a century after its creation, OSE carries forward this same trust placed in youth.