Editing Pierre de Coubertin (section)

=== Personal Olympic success ===
Coubertin won the [[Art competitions at the 1912 Summer Olympics|gold medal for literature]] at the 1912 Summer Olympics for his poem "Ode to Sport," which was the first time the arts competitions were included at the Games.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gjerde |first=Arild |author2=Jeroen Heijmans |author3=Bill Mallon |author4=Hilary Evans |title=Pierre, Baron de Coubertin Biography and Olympic Results |publisher=Sports Reference.com |year=2011 |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/pierre-baron-de-coubertin-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221855/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/pierre-baron-de-coubertin-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=7 March 2012}}</ref> Coubertin entered the poem under the pseudonym of Georges Hohrod and M. Eschbach which were the names of villages close to his wife's place of birth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldblatt |first1=David |title=The Games |date=2016 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |location=London |isbn=978-1-4472-9887-8 |pages=1–2}}</ref> Below is an excerpt: <blockquote> ''O Sport, delight of the Gods, distillation of life! In the grey dingle of modern existence, restless with barren toil, you suddenly appeared like the shining messenger of vanished ages, those ages when humanity could smile.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=Smithsonian |last2=Wexler |first2=Ellen |title=Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened? |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/poetry-was-an-official-olympic-event-for-nearly-40-years-what-happened-180984838/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>