Pierre de Coubertin was the initiator of the modern Olympic Games. The Paris Olympics are being held exactly a century after those of 1924.
On several occasions, there was talk of pantheonizing him, but his widow was opposed to it. Emmanuel Macron's technical advisors did not follow up, judging the character "too controversial" Shameful Cobertinism is therefore in vogue. Only a tribute ceremony is planned for June 23, at the Sorbonne, where the Olympic project was officially launched in 1894.