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For other uses, see Stade Pierre de Coubertin (disambiguation).

Sports arena in Paris, France

The Stade Pierre de Coubertin (French for Pierre de Coubertin Stadium) is an indoor arena that is located in Paris, France. It is the home venue of the Paris Saint-Germain Handball team. The arena has a seating capacity of 4,200 people for basketball games.

History

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Stade Pierre de Coubertin was opened in 1937, for the Universal Exposition, and it was rebuilt after the bombing that occurred during the Second World War.^[2] The stadium was used as a detention centre during the Paris massacre of 1961.^[3] In 1990, the arena underwent a renovation, which included a new façade, expansion of its seating capacity, and the addition of various service areas.^[1]

In addition to previously being the home arena of the basketball teams Paris BR, Levallois Sporting Club, and Paris-Levallois, each year the Stade Pierre de Coubertin also hosts various sporting events, such as the fencing Grand Prix: Challenge International de Paris (in January) and the Challenge Monal (in February), the Open Gaz de France women's tennis tournament, and the Internationaux de France de Badminton.^[4]

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Pierre de Coubertin, from Catholicism to the worship of athletes

Born into a royalist and devout Catholic family, the founding father of the Olympic Games drew on various religious influences promoting the cultivation of body and spirit to develop his project. At the end of his life, he went so far as to conceptualize an 'athlete's religion,' drawing inspiration from Ancient Greece.

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The Chapelle de l'Epiphanie in the 7^th arrondissement of Paris is home to a painting that speaks volumes about the family birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), the founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894 and recognized as the father of the modern Olympic Games.

In this artwork, entitled Le Départ des Missionnaires vers l'Asie ("The Missionaries' Departure to Asia," 1868), his father, Charles Louis de Frédy de Coubertin (1822-1908), a Sulpician painter, is shown with 5-year-old Pierre and his older sister. All three had come to kiss the feet of missionaries preparing to set off to evangelize the Far East.

Indeed, the de Coubertin family was steeped in a royalist and devoutly Catholic milieu. Like his brothers, Pierre was educated by the Jesuits at the Collège Saint-Ignace in Paris, where he received a religious education, as well as a Helle