BIOL 1209 Chapter : 20140408 155619
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International sports in the 20th century 5/5/2014 2:34:00 am. Coubertin; young frenchman that was a strong promoter of physical education and sport; he organized the sports festival in. Penn; he had an alcoholic father so things at home weren"t very good and he wasn"t very good; the boarding school was named. >> test question: 1916 olympics were cancelled in berlin because it was during wwi and weren"t held again until 1920, we see a number of world championships (davis cup, tour de. France (1903), far eastern games (ymca inititives: 1918 there were the inter games; there were 1500 athletes from, in 1980 the us boycotted the us because of the soviet unions invasion of afgahnistan; Olympic flag was flown for the first time (had been approved as olympic flag in 1914 > test question); there were now going to be an oath taking by one athlete representing their country for the participating athletes.
