The French connection: Paris flame to make first stop in Greece at heart of modern games' founder
by Via AP news wire
Apr 14, 2024
2 minutes
Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what’s left of a singular Frenchman’s heart.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin was the driving force behind the modern Olympics, and as head of the oversaw the last Games to be held in , exactly 100 years ago.
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