HIST 3838 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Arianism, Omen, United States Olympic Committee
13 Jan 2016
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11 the olympic games film: leni riefenstahl, olympia. Baron pierre de coubertin credited with the idea of reviving the ancient games in modern. Muscular christianity was the celebration of manhood through vigorous sports, tempered by. Coubertin had written nothing about the olympics before 1889. Yet it was coubertin who received the credit for the idea of introducing an intentional olympic. Coubertin announced his intentions to revive the olympics in 1892 but received no support in. Coubertin recognized that preserving exclusivity in sport was of paramount importance for leaders of influence politicians and sportsmen of nobility from around the world, the men who would help him see his grandiose plans in fruition. Caspar whitney president of the american olympic committee in 1906 was appalled at the. These men popularized and rationalized amateurism and its lofty social ideals, in party by. In reality, amateurism was an ideal idled oppressively by middle and upper class sportsmen.
