![Petros Giannakouris FILE - A marble altar with the Olympic rings stands under the night sky at the monument where is placed the heart of French Baron Pierre de Coubertin, in ancient Olympia, on Monday April 8, 2024. Born in 1863, Coubertin was the second president of the IOC. while the Ancient Olympics originated in Greece, its modern incarnation is very much a French affair. The Games were revived in the 1890s by a French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin—who now holds a questionable legacy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c3a35336b12e40cfaaa254de43e0e200/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - A marble altar with the Olympic rings stands under the night sky at the monument where is placed the heart of French Baron Pierre de Coubertin, in ancient Olympia, on Monday April 8, 2024. Born in 1863, Coubertin was the second president of the IOC. while the Ancient Olympics originated in Greece, its modern incarnation is very much a French affair. The Games were revived in the 1890s by a French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin—who now holds a questionable legacy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
![Laurent Gillieron FILE - The grave of International Olympic Committee (IOC) founder baron Pierre de Coubertin is photographed at the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept.11, 2014. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/00b9e5cb93cd4b51b4c56315f7f8572d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - The grave of International Olympic Committee (IOC) founder baron Pierre de Coubertin is photographed at the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept.11, 2014. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron, File)
![Heribert Proepper FILE - Carver Maaike Huizinga from the Netherlands gives a final touch to the sand sculpture of sports people behind the sand figure of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, in the "Olympic Stadium Travemuende" at the beach of the Luebeck Bay in Luebeck-Travemuende, northern Germany on Tuesday, July 6, 2004. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/643167e71a68412a8558794d964b0284/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - Carver Maaike Huizinga from the Netherlands gives a final touch to the sand sculpture of sports people behind the sand figure of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, in the "Olympic Stadium Travemuende" at the beach of the Luebeck Bay in Luebeck-Travemuende, northern Germany on Tuesday, July 6, 2004. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper, File)
![Petros Giannakouris FILE - The bronze bust of the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin stands at the entrance of the Hellenic Olympic Committee building in Athens, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. The worst charge against Coubertin, was a personal letter he sent to Adolf Hitler praising the Nazi dictator and the Third Reich. he Coubertin family association, run by Pierre de Coubertin's descendants, denied in a statement to the Associated Press that Hitler and Coubertin maintained regular correspondence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/d1e849ed36bc44dd943a6a2ebdb0ecc6/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE - The bronze bust of the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin stands at the entrance of the Hellenic Olympic Committee building in Athens, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. The worst charge against Coubertin, was a personal letter he sent to Adolf Hitler praising the Nazi dictator and the Third Reich. he Coubertin family association, run by Pierre de Coubertin's descendants, denied in a statement to the Associated Press that Hitler and Coubertin maintained regular correspondence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)