The Modern Olympics

A Struggle for Revival

By: David C. Young

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Paperback | 16 March 2003

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According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in The Modern Olympics, David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics.

Based on thirteen years of research in previously neglected documents, Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown history of the Olympic revival movement in the nineteenth century, including two long-forgotten Olympiads--one in London in 1866 and another in Athens in 1870. He traces the idea for the modern Olympics back to an obscure Greek poet in 1833 and follows the sinuous tale to a small village in England, where W. P. Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic Committee, and told Coubertin about his vision of an international Olympics.

Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

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""Young has provided us with a carefully researched examination of two important and much misunderstood episodes in Modern Olympic history, the genesis of the most vigorous and successful early attempts to organize Olympic Games in modern context... Far and away themost authoritative and comprehensive portrayal of the subject yet produced... The corpus of research data produced by Young in this study is far beyond admiration, it is altogether staggering.""

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Preface
List of Abbreviations
The Birth of the Olympic Idea, 1833-1858: The Poet and the Doctor	p. 1
The First Zappas Olympiad, 1856-1859	p. 13
The Olympic Movement in England, 1859-1868	p. 24
The Olympic Movement in Greece, 1869-1875	p. 42
National Failures, International Dreams, 1869-1888	p. 53
Enter Pierre de Coubertin, 1883-1890	p. 68
The Baron at Work, 1890-1894	p. 81
The 1894 Paris Congress and D. Vikelas	p. 96
The IOC: First Faltering Steps, 1894	p. 106
Politics, Trade Unions, and Wedding Bells, 1894-1895	p. 116
The Greeks at Work, 1895-1896	p. 127
The First International Olympic Games Begin, 1896	p. 136
IOC Olympiad I: One to Remember, 1896	p. 148
The Olympic Games Finally Revived	p. 160
Appendix: Note on Documents	p. 171
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 245
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