The wind howling through the ruins of Olympia, Greece, carried nothing but the ghosts of a forgotten era. For nearly fifteen centuries, the sacred altars had been silent, the grand stadiums buried under dust and stone. The ancient decree of the Ekecheiria—the Sacred Truce that once forced warring kings to drop their swords and embrace as brothers—had been erased from human memory. The world had grown cold, fractured by modern political borders, deep-rooted malice, and relentless wars.But thousands of miles away, in the heart of Paris, a young French educator named Baron Pierre de Coubertin heard the silent cry of