“One of the great fundamentals of the Olympic Games is that nations can compete against one another without going to war.” Four years after drafting the manifesto, the modern Games debuted in Athens, Greece. Sotheby’s, which is putting the document on display in New York on Saturday before the auction on December 18, has sold similar sports artefacts in the past, including James Naismith’s Founding Rules of Basketball for more than $4 million in 2010. Each of the manifesto’s fragile 14 notepaper pages is stored inside a Mylar sleeve, with Coubertin’s scribbled edits and crossed out phrases displaying the historical backdrop against which the Games were conceived. “You really get a sense of the immediacy of this draft,” said Austin. “The modern Olympics really comes down to this one man.”
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