The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. |
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. |
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. |
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 Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. |
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. |
The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem. |
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence. |