History of Athletics - Modern Era International Olympic Committee

History of Athletics - Modern Era International Olympic Committee.

The renaissance brought up old cultural values ​​and thus emerged positively Olympic sports. Appeared,
then the methods of Physical Education and among them the Natural Method of Herbert who wore the Athletics as their very
activity.

In 1892, Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin spoke French at the Sorbonne, a conference on the exercise
and modern sports and spoke on this occasion that the whole future of the sport lay in the revival of the games
Olympic. His words found support in the United States, William Sloane, athletics enthusiast and English
Charles Herbert, important man in European sport.

Finally decided to create the International Olympic Committee and score for the 1896 Athens Olympics era
modern.

Source: Athletics