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Cornell and its alumni have played prominent roles in the Games\u2014even before they were founded<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1889, French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin visited the Hill on a tour of American universities to study education\u2014especially physical education. Coubertin had been corresponding with former Cornell president Andrew Dickson White, who introduced him to other influential U.S. leaders. The social and educational benefits of athletic competition, as showcased at American colleges, became Coubertin\u2019s passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hardly dare to tell you that I think, from what I saw, that Cornell is far the best of all American universities,\u201d Coubertin wrote to White. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cI had lately the misfortune of making some Harvard men very angry by telling them that whilst Harvard was but a fine imitation of the English universities, Cornell seemed to me to stand as a type of what an American university ought to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coubertin was clearly a wise man\u2014and his observations would shape his vision for international athletic competition. In fact, the earliest known record of that vision is an 1892 letter to White.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cI have come to the conclusion that if the Olympian Games were started anew & held every four years as in the old times,\u201d he wrote, \u201cit would be a great benefit to modern athleticism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And thus, Cornell helped launch the modern Olympic movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1894, a meeting was held in Paris to discuss the idea and create an International Olympic Committee. Participating as a commissioner was journalist Theodore Stanton 1874, MA 1877; the son of social reformers Henry and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, he would go on to serve on the IOC\u2014the only Cornellian who has ever done so.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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If Cornell were its own country, it would rank somewhere around Mexico in terms of medals won, at 73. At least 129 Olympic athletes have studied at the University\u2014and that\u2019s not including the many who have served as Big Red coaches (and some faculty and staff).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at the first Games in Athens in 1896, there were no Cornellians among the nearly 250 competitors (including 14 from the U.S.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Sun<\/em> readers got a firsthand perspective from special correspondent Eugene Andrews 1895, then studying at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (which the University had helped establish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think, from what I saw, that Cornell is far the best of all American universities.<\/p>\nOlympics founder Pierre de Coubertin<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Wrote Andrews: \u201cThe games were really more interesting than anyone anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrews had made international news in the months leading up to the Olympics for deciphering an erstwhile inscription on the Parthenon; he learned it was not original to the building, but had been added to honor Emperor Nero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Olympics, Andrews was joined by Cornell professor (and future University of California president) Benjamin Ide Wheeler, on leave to teach at the American School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving as a judge for track events, Wheeler helped avert an international incident when a U.S. athlete began protesting to a referee without realizing the man\u2014Prince George of Greece and Denmark\u2014was one of the Games\u2019 organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Cornell were its own country, it would rank somewhere around Mexico in terms of medals won, at 73.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until the Olympics came to America that Cornellians first competed, with a trio of student track athletes traveling to St. Louis in 1904. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each brought home one medal\u2014bronze, silver, and gold\u2014beginning a streak of participants at every Olympiad through 1932, except Winter 1924 at Chamonix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the U.S. and Canada are the best-represented countries among Cornell Olympians, 12 countries have fielded Big Red athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable Big Red Olympians include:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Carpenter 1907<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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At the 1908 Games in London, Carpenter finished first in the men\u2019s 400-meter race, but was disqualified for obstructing the British runner in a move that was legal under American rules, but not British ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final was re-run without Carpenter, but his two teammates refused to participate, leaving the Brit to win gold in the only walkover victory in Olympic history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aftermath, several changes were made\u2014including the founding of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) to standardize rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Carpenter at the 1908 Games. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lee Talbot 1911<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Talbot is one of the few people to compete in three different sports at one Olympiad. In London in 1908, he participated in track and field (discus, hammer throw, and shot put), freestyle heavyweight wrestling, and tug-of-war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was part of the U.S. tug-of-war team that withdrew from the quarterfinals in protest when the team of Liverpool Police from Great Britain was allowed to compete in service boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Paul Jones 1913<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jones on the Hill. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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In 1912, the IAAF became the first overseer of athletic world records\u2014and its first ratified mile record holder was Jones, a Big Red track star. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He failed to medal at the 1912 Games, although he played in baseball\u2019s Olympic demonstration debut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019d go on to set the first official IAAF mile record (4 minutes, 14.4 seconds) his senior year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bob Kane \u201934<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Interestingly the only alum in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame served as an administrator rather than an athlete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After many years in Big Red athletics, including as director, he served as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1977\u201381\u2014a period that saw both the creation of the U.S. Olympic Festival and America\u2019s boycott of the Games in Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Kane (literally) wrote the book on Big Red athletics.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Charlie Moore \u201951<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Moore (left) with fellow Big Red Olympians Meredith “Flash” Gourdine ’52, BEP ’53 (who’d win silver in the long jump and become a Cornell trustee) and Walter Ashbaugh ’51, MBA ’55. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The future Cornell athletic director won gold in the 400-meter hurdles and silver in the 4×100 meter relay at the 1952 Helsinki Games. (His success was due, in part, to the fact that he took only 13 steps between hurdles instead of the common 15.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A director with the U.S. Olympic Committee, Moore was the only Cornellian honored among \u201c100 Golden Olympians\u201d in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Hall \u201956 & Rebecca Johnston \u201911, BS \u201912<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Johnston on the ice for the Big Red. (Cornell Athletics)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Only two Cornellians have competed in four Olympiads: Hall in the hammer throw (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968) and Johnston in ice hockey (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 19 medals (11 of them gold), ice hockey is Cornell\u2019s most successful Olympic sport; Johnston is one of seven alumnae to compete in the last decade, primarily for Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 2024: Headed for Paris<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Taylor Knibb racing in the City of Light in 2023. (World Triathlon \/ Janos M. Schmidt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

With several Cornellians competing at this summer\u2019s Games, there will be plenty of opportunities to cheer for Big Red alums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include returning medalists Kyle Dake \u201913 (wrestling) and Taylor Knibb \u201920<\/a>, who became the youngest woman to ever qualify for the U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team when she made it to the previous Summer Games, held in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre de Coubertin and A.D. White would be proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore,\u00a0<\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/a>\u00a0teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em>
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Top: Runners await their start at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published July 18, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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