The IOC has scheduled the meetings of its 21 Commissions during the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games, held from 9thto 22ndJanuary. The Olympic Capital is crowded with young athletes from 79 countries, coaches, sport officials, volunteers, visitors and commission members…
This concert offered works of two great French composers-organists, contemporaries of Coubertin, Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Victor Vierne, most notable for their organ symphonies. Their music honored the famous organ of the cathedral of Lausanne.…
The Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo officially opened its doors to the public in September 2019. A highlight of the opening was the unveiling of a bust of Pierre de Coubertin donated to the museum by the CIPC…
The 3rd volume of the e-journal has gone online now. Since the 2nd edition the CIPC has been involved in the editorial board…
A Pierre de Coubertin Day was organized on Thursday 10th October 2019 under the auspices of the National Pierre de Coubertin Committee of the Cameroon as a part of the celebrations of 20th anniversary of the foundation of this committee.
This Congress was held from 16th to 18th October 2019 at the Paris Seine University, organized by the university`s sport faculty and one of its professors, Gilles Lecocq, was in charge…
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay celebrated the 1st International Congress on Olympism in Colombia, and the 2ndLatin American Pierre de Coubertin Symposium.
12thInternational Pierre de Coubertin Youth Forum From 24th- 31stof August 2019, the French town of Mâcon was the site of the 12thInternational Pierre de Coubertin Youth Forum having students from numerous Coubertin Schools across the world. Following Coubertin’s idea of peace and friendship among nations, the International Pierre de Coubertin committee (CIPC) organises its Youth Forums every two years in
26-28 September 2019, Colombia: The Symposium on Pierre de Coubertin is taking place at the ‘Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos’ in the city of Pereira, Colombia from 26 to 28 September 2019. It is the 1st International symposium on Olympism in Colombia and 2nd Latin American Symposium on Pierre de Coubertin with participation of distinguished academics and members
The President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC), Prof. Dr. Stephan Wassong, has been re-appointed Adjunct Professor for three more years at the School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand. The reason for the re-appointment was the successful cooperation between the Institute of Sport History and the Olympic Study Center of the German