"I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness."
— Olympic Games

January 1, 1970

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Pierre de Coubertin, stated the modern founder of the Olympic movement, in the year before he died. The Olympics, Sports and Religion—Is There a Conflict?, Awake! magazine (8 August 1984)