Eighty-eight years ago today, on September 2, 1937 (July 28, 1937), Coubertin, the "father of the Olympic Games", passed away in Geneva. Coubertin Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern Olympic movement, as well as a historian and educator. He was born into an aristocratic family in Paris, France, and was a baron himself. In his youth, he loved ancient Greek history and admired British schooling, which had a significant impact on his later abandonment of his career and his dedication to sports, as well as his strong advocacy for the restoration of the ancient Olympic Games and the reform of French education. In 1883, he first put forward the idea of holding regular world competitions. In 1889, he proposed to resume the Olympic Games. Since then, he has devoted himself entirely to the difficult cause of reviving and developing the Olympic movement. Finally, in 1894, the Paris International Sports Conference was held and the International Olympic Committee was established. Coubertin was elected secretary-general. After the Athens Olympics, he succeeded the president of the International Olympic Committee. From 1896 to 1925, he served as the president of the Olympic Committee for nearly 30 years, and after 1925, he served as the honorary president for life. During his tenure, Coubertin made important contributions to the development of the Olympic movement. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, he published the famous work "Ode to Sports" under the German names Holod and Escherbach. In this poem, he passionately extols sports and expresses his Olympic ideals. The work won the gold medal in the Olympic literary and artistic competition. He also wrote "A Trial of Sports Psychology" and "Competitive Sports Pedagogy". On September 2, 1937, Baron Coubertin, 74, was walking on the path of Geneva's Lagrange Park on the left bank of Lake Lemans when he suffered a heart attack, fell to the ground and died suddenly. The body was found days later. In accordance with his dying instructions, his body was buried in Lausanne, the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, and his heart was buried in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic movement. Baron de Coubertin 1900 Baron de Coubertin 1936 Baron de Coubertin Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) Grand-nephew of Baron de Coubertin and heir to the baronial title Jovois de Navasselle de Coubertin Gymnastics competition poster for the 1900 Paris Olympics, with the words "1900 International Exposition" visible at the top right, without a single word mentioning the Olympic Games. Coubertin's library tickets in the collection of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne