FOUNDER OF OLYMPIADS
HEART TO BE BURIED AT ATHENS STADIUM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ATHENS, February 22. (Received February 23, at 1.5 p.m.) The Olympic International Committee decided' to bury the heart of Baron Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympiads, under a stone erected in his honour at the stadium where the first Olympiad was held in 1896. ' Baron Coubertin wished his body interred there, but this was impossible as he was not cremated.
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Evening Star, Issue 22890, 23 February 1938, Page 14
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74FOUNDER OF OLYMPIADS Evening Star, Issue 22890, 23 February 1938, Page 14
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