Oh, addendum. Brookes died 4 months before the first modern Olympic games so he never got to see his dreams realised. As Trump would say, SAD!

Except Coubertin and one of the previous presidents of the IOC actually credits William Penny Brookes as being the founder of the modern Olympics. In 1994, the then President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, laid a wreath on the grave of William Penny Brookes saying, “I came to pay…