Editing Pierre de Coubertin (section)

=== President of the International Olympic Committee ===
[[File:International Olympic Committee Headquarters (2).jpg|thumb|International Olympics Committee Headquarters.]]
[[File:International Olympic Committee 1922.jpg|thumb|IOC members 1922]]
Coubertin became the second president of the IOC in 1896 with the [[1900 Summer Olympics|Paris Olympics of 1900]] being the first Games he oversaw as president. He made a major advancement for Olympic recognition by bringing hosting the [[Intercalated Games|1906 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, which generated increased attention and participation at the Games. Since that time, the Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world's foremost sports competition.<ref>{{cite web |title=Overview of Olympic Games |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/428005/Olympic-Games |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=4 June 2008}}</ref> Coubertin created the [[modern pentathlon]] for the [[1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympics]], and subsequently stepped down from his IOC presidency after the [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924 Olympics]] in Paris, which proved much more successful than the first attempt in that city in 1900. He was succeeded as president, in 1925, by Belgian [[Henri de Baillet-Latour]]. During his tenure as president, Coubertin finally succeeded in having art competitions included as part of the Olympic Games, something he had advocated for since the founding of the IOC.<ref name=":0" /> Much of the funding for the IOC came from Coubertin personally. In fact, he depleted his wealth so much through these donations that he struggled financially at the end of his life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Pierre, Baron de Coubertin |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920613 |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref>

Years later Coubertin came out of retirement to lend his prestige to assisting Berlin to land the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 games]]. In exchange, Germany nominated him for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. The 1935 winner, however, was the anti-Nazi [[Carl von Ossietzky]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/sports/olympics-evidence-ties-olympic-taint-to-1936-games.html |last=Lipsyte |first=Robert |title=Evidence Ties Olympic Taint To 1936 Games |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 February 1999 |pages=SP1 & SP3 |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref>