 Gateway of Dreams (2019) | |
| Coordinates | 33°45′37″N84°23′37″W / 33.760407°N 84.393564°W |
|---|---|
| Location | Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Designer | Raymond Kaskey |
| Dedicated date | 1996 |
| Dedicated to | Pierre de Coubertin |
Gateway of Dreams is a public monument in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Located in Centennial Olympic Park, the monument honors Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic Games. The monument was dedicated in 1996.
In 1996, Atlanta hosted the Centennial Olympic Games. Centennial Olympic Park, located in downtown Atlanta, was created to memorialize the games and, according to Georgia Trend , is "the centerpiece of the Olympics legacy" in the city. [1] In 1996, the year the park opened, the monument was erected to honor Pierre de Coubertin, [2] who had founded the modern Olympic Games with the 1896 Summer Olympics 100 years prior. [3] [4] The monument, designed by Raymond Kaskey, [1] features a step pyramid and the columns of Boaz and Jachin in addition to the statue of Coubertin. [5] The monument is one of several in the area that memorialize the Olympic Games, such as The Flair near the former site of the Georgia Dome. [1] In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Atlanta, the statue of Coubertin was damaged with some white paint. [2]
Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and its second president. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games.
The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, commonly known as Atlanta 1996, and also referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia. These Games, which were the fourth Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States, marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens—the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games. They were also the first since 1924 to be held in a different year from a Winter Olympics, under a new IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and Winter Games in alternating, even-numbered years.
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