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| Location | Centennial Olympic Park,Atlanta,Georgia,United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′37″N84°23′37″W / 33.760407°N 84.393564°W /33.760407; -84.393564 |
| Designer | Raymond Kaskey |
| Dedicated date | 1996 |
| Dedicated to | Pierre de Coubertin |
Gateway of Dreams is a publicmonument inAtlanta,Georgia,United States. Located inCentennial Olympic Park, the monument honorsPierre de Coubertin, the father of the modernOlympic Games. The monument was dedicated in 1996.
In 1996,Atlanta hosted theCentennial Olympic Games.Centennial Olympic Park, located indowntown Atlanta, was created to memorialize the games and, according toGeorgia Trend, is "the centerpiece of the Olympics legacy" in the city.[1] In 1996, the year the park opened, the monument was erected to honorPierre de Coubertin,[2] who had founded the modernOlympic Games with the1896 Summer Olympics 100 years prior.[3][4] The monument, designed byRaymond Kaskey,[1] features astep pyramid and the columns ofBoaz and Jachin in addition to the statue of Coubertin.[5] The monument is one of several in the area that memorialize the Olympic Games, such as The Flair near the former site of theGeorgia Dome.[1] In June 2020, during theGeorge Floyd protests in Atlanta, the statue of Coubertin was damaged with some white paint.[2]
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