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The rarest Olympic Medal is the Pierre de Coubertin (aka True Spirit of Sportsmanship) medal. It is awarded less than once per Olympics.
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The Olympics once had a category for literature, and that its first gold medalist was Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.
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Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was leading the 2004 Athens Men's Olympic Marathon by 30 seconds when he was tackled by a protester, causing him to fall to third place. He was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for his sportsmanship in the aftermath.
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The founder of the modern Olympics Baron Pierre de Coubertin was a rower.
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In 1896 the founder of the modern Olympic Games Baron Pierre de Coubertin named wrestling as one of the "Foundational Sports" of the Olympic Games.
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The Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius" means ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger" in English. The father of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, heard a priest say these words several years prior to proposing the use of the words as the Olympic Games" motto in 1894.
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Italian Olympian Eugenio Monti, who was awarded the Pierre De Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship after he gave a spare bolt to two different bobsleigh teams at the 1964 Winter Olympics, allowing them to compete. Both teams won gold in their respective events.
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The Olympics were banned in 393 A.D (for being a pagan festival) until 1896 when Baron Pierre de Coubertin suggested to bring them back regularly.
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Olympic medals were awarded for architecture, music, painting, and sculpture from 1912 to 1948. Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics, won a gold medal in literature in 1912.
