FILE - Carver Maaike Huizinga from the Netherlands gives a final touch to the sand sculpture of sports people behind the sand figure of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, in the "Olympic Stadium Travemuende" at the beach of the Luebeck Bay in Luebeck-Travemuende, northern Germany on Tuesday, July 6, 2004. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper, File)