Talk:Pierre de Coubertin

message: Um, how come we dont mention that this monster was given money by the nazis? This oage makes it look like he is a good person and has a good rep, this monster was a horrible person who deserves to have his grave spit on!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.140.72.68 (talk) 03:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless you can provide references... --euyyn 19:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have some references. Since the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens in 1859. It was called "Olympics" at that time. There were participants from both independent Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Reference: The Modern Olympics, A Struggle for Revival, Chapter 2, by David C. Young. Other good references include the actual ticket (scan in the section about the Zappas Olympics (Zappas Olympics was not used at that time) and program of the event. The ticket says "Olympics" on it. It doesn't say "Zappas Games". Nor does it say "national Olympics" on it. Baron Pierre de Coubertin is the founder of the International Olympic Committee. However, is not the only founder of the Modern Olympic Games. And there are other founders including Dr William Penny Brookes who is undoubtedly a founder of the Modern Olympic Movement. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 11:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Previous discussions without headers

message: As he was (I assume) a baron, shouldn't we have to name it "Pierre, Baron de Coubertin"? Well, in fact we don't mention a single time in the article that he were a baron... Is it false? Beacuse I think almost everybody believes it. --euyyn 19:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct title 

message: What's with all the "see www.zappas.org" and stuff like "without knowing, understanding, or appreciating"? There is no contention that Pierre de Coubertin founded the IOC and that he was successful in bringing the modern Olympic Games to life. I would think that a better way to tell the story of another attempt to bring the games back by someone else, would be to: 
#create an article on it, 
#have a mention to it in this article and 
#have a new section on it in the Olympic Games article. 
--Kimon 16:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed all of that garbage, and encourage other editors to do the same when it (inevitably) reappears. It appears to be someone with a very clear agenda of publicizing a particular point of view. To anyone promoting the Zappas theory, please find a neutral, non-biased external source -- in accordance with numerous Wikipedia policies -- or your edits will continue to be reverted. --SuperNova |T|C|08:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  zappas.org 

message: I removed some stuff obviously added as junk (pee drinking and poo eating). Probably not worth note on this page, but I thought I'd mention it since it was simply chopped right out. And this is posted by Rhenn. Me and my sig don't get along for some reason.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.88.67.230 (talk) 23:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pee and Poo 

message: Please Fix the Footnotes -- thanks Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 11:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Fix the Footnotes 

message: I just noticed this, as I was going through the article, in 'family life' it says that "his son became retarded after being left in the sun for too long". Someone with sources of info on his family life please edit this out.
SysZero (talk) 14:38, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family Life 

message: The date of death is incorrectly listed as February in the side box. Should be September.
--Robjlucas  —Preceding undated comment added 13:06, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death 

message: The paragraph entitled Criticism and its Controverses equivalent in the French article show significant disparities. The former addresses the scholarly misunderstanding of the ancient Games by Coubertin, while the later explores his unsavory political positions, notably his admiration for Hitler and ensuing glorification of the Nazi regime. I believe a translation of that paragraph would be a worthy addition to his English biography. Président (talk) 00:16, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Need for translation: Criticism and ''Controverses''

message: :
What is being inferred here? That he never married? 
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What word is intended where I have put the ????? Also, how can that be true anyway? Jacques de Coubertin outlived his father by 15 years.
Moriori (talk) 20:59, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs attention

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message: I am removing the Bible quote from the Criticism section which was inserted in 2011: . It is a primary source (which should be avoided, WP:PRIMARY), original research, and I could point to other Bible verses which apparently emphasise finishing over winning, e.g. 2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. So better to remove the use of Bible verses altogether. Adpete (talk) 01:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing Bible quote 

message: According to the Olympia, Greece#Modern_Olympia article, "When Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee, died in 1937, a monument to him was erected at ancient Olympia and, emulating Evangelis Zappas, whose head is buried under a statue in front of the Zappeion, his heart was buried at the monument".  I know that my personal recollection doesn't count, but I can clearly remember a notice stating that fact from when I visited Olympia in the late 1980s. JezGrove (talk) 14:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart buried in Olympia in Greece? 

message: There are various honours attributed to Baron de Coubertin in the Categories section of this page, but none are cited in the article. Does anyone have an idea as to the accuracy of these categories? OGBC1992 (talk) 10:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honours in Categories