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Nov 2020
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SYMHC Classics: Coubertin and the Modern...

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This episode is our 2016 live show from the Dallas Museum of Art about the Olympics. Pierre de Coubertin is described as the father of the modern Olympic Games, which took a few years to really take off.

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