“Faster, higher, stronger”.  This is the motto of the Olympic Games proposed by the French Baron de Coubertin, who in 1896 revived the ancient Greek games (8th century BC to 4th century AD) as a program of moral beauty.  The modern Olympic games exult in the aesthetics of sports without borders, committed to the idea More

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