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| Pierre de Coubertin
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto … a motto for people who dare to try to break records. May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul. Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem. |
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