At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, poetry was an official event. Modern history's first written work to win an Olympic gold medal was "Ode to Sport," a prose poem by Georges Hohrod and M. Eschbach. There were also medals in sculpture, painting, and music. Hilariously, Hohrod and Eschbach did not exist; they were pseudonyms for Pierre de Coubertin, the man who founded the modern Olympics. The 1948 London Olympics were the final artistic competitions at the games.
