Ode to sport
The Ode to Sport ( French Ode au Sport ) is a poem by IOC President Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937). At the art competitions of the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , Sweden , the work received the gold medal in the "Literature" category.
Coubertin had submitted the nine-trophy ode to the jury in German and French under the pseudonym “Georges Hohrod et M. Eschbach”. The author duo competed for the German Empire . The actual authorship was not known until 1919; In 1990, Hohrod and Eschbach-au-Val - two neighboring communities of Coubertin's wife Marie Rothan (1861–1963), Luttenbach-près-Munster - were identified as the namesake of the authorship. The Comité International Pierre De Coubertin sees a similarity in the work to Paul Claudel's Cinq Grandes Odes published between 1904 and 1910 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ode au Sport ( English ) In: olympic-museum.de . Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ Pierre, Baron de Coubertin ( English ) In: sports-reference.com . Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ Olympic Art Competitions ( English ) In: decoubertin.info . Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ INFORMATION LETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIERRE DE COUBERTIN COMMITTEE 1/99 ( English , PDF; 593 kB) In: coubertin.ch . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
