Berkley Center

Olympism is a set of principles, ideas, visions, and challenges. Coubertin described it, in not completely systematic terms, as a philosophy of life with the principles of a cult of effort, eurhythmics, and a love of exercise, but also as a state of…

‘Oh Sport, you are peace...!’ ~Coubertin, Ode to Sport, IX

It was through an antique Sound Solo radio belonging to my headmistress grandmother—which she had the tendency of placing on a mahogany table that consumed almost the entire space in her…

In the elevator, I glanced down at my scuffed blue soccer cleats. My host brother, eager to finally get onto the field, had quickly rummaged around and waited patiently while I did my best to jam my feet into what he found. As the doors closed, I…