Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what's left of a singular Frenchman's heart.
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what’s left of a singular Frenchman’s heart.
And its first stop on the relay that culminates in the July 26 opening ceremony will be at this cypress-ringed memorial to Coubertin, where the torchbearer will light an altar in his honor. PHOTOS: The French connection: Paris flame to make first stop in Greece at heart of modern games' founder Before he died in 1937 and was buried in Lausanne, Switzerland, Coubertin left special directions for his heart: It was to be removed and placed inside the monument erected in his honor ten years earlier just outside the ruins of ancient Olympia.
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