Pheidippides vs Coubertin: The Runner Who Died Delivering the Games' First Word

COUBERTIN vs SULLIVAN go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

COUBERTIN

I revived the Games as a temple of amateur virtue: the important thing is not to win but to take part.

SULLIVAN

Charming motto, Baron, but in St. Louis in 1904 I ran the show, and Americans took most of the medals because I made the rules and the schedule.

COUBERTIN

You turned my sacred festival into a sideshow beside a world's fair, with your notorious 'Anthropology Days' mocking human dignity.

SULLIVAN

And yet the crowds came, the flag rose, and the records were real, while your poetry needed my organization to breathe.

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