Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des Sociétés opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injustices
Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des Sociétés opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injusticesin a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.
The International Olympic Committee founder, Pierre de Coubertin, a young French aristocrat, argued that in the 1890s the Games would be a symbol of peace and universalism, although they were initially focused on the powerful ruling classes and muscular white men.
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