French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, was born to a wealthy family in Paris on New Year's Day of 1863. He was raised with the notion that the French people had...

Although, information about the history of sport psychology after 1965 can be located, few details exist about the development of the field before that time. Literature describing the development of sport psychology has discussed a series of essays published by Pierre de Coubertin in...

Olympic movement founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin effectively developed his aesthetic theories about sport and eurythmie during a period of great cultural contradictions. Coubertin's aesthetic ideas had amateur sport as central subject of contemplation as it was likewise related to the Olympic movement. He...

Revered as the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece, Olympia in the western Peloponnese hosted the ancient Olympic Games for more than 1,000 years after they started in 776 B.C.Ruined temples of Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, and his wife Hera still stand on...