She established the Special Olympics in 1968, creating a platform for children worldwide to engage in sports activities tailored to their abilities. RFK Jr.'s outrageous assertion extended beyond ...

Inspired by William Penny Brookes' Wenlock Olympian Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin almost singlehandedly created the Olympics by reviving the ancient Greek tradition of Games at the end of the ...

Michael Schneider, founder of the nonprofit Streets for All ... but he had hoped the Olympics would trigger a substantial investment in “bus rapid transit, a network of bike lanes, sidewalks ...

The German billionaire Christian Angermayer covers his Manhattan penthouse with symbols of his favorite investments. On one ...

Several attempts were made at the end of the 19th century to bring back the games, but were unsuccessful until Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator and founder of the modern Olympics games ...

When French historian Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic ... Far from bringing an end to wars, the Olympics have been embroiled in and even canceled by them.

France likes to honour its late pioneers and visionaries, but the aristocratic Frenchman who founded the modern Olympics is proving to be a troublesome figure for organisers of the Paris 2024 Games.