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Citius, Altius, Fortius.

- Pierre de Coubertin

Faster, Higher, Stronger.

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Olympic Games Quotes

Paris Olympic Games 2024 Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown Welcome to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games website. The Olympic Winter Games return to Europe, the birthplace of Alpine skiing, encompassing a large portion of Italy’s breathtaking mountains and covering an area of 22,000 square kilometres. From 6 to 22 February 2026, around 2,900 athletes from over 90 National Olympic Committees will compete in 116 events on ice and snow, in eight sports and 16 disciplines. The 2026 Olympic Winter Games will take place from 6 to 22 February, while the 2026 Paralympic Games will take place from 6 to 15 March.

Olimpiadi invernali Milano Cortina 2026 If you want to know more about the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games visit its website. Follow the worlds top athletes as they go for gold in France (Jul 26-Aug 11, 2024). Paralympic Games – Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 8 September. So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. Epictetus Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic. Jessica Park I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on.  In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.  Michael Ventre The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver.  Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.  Richard Nixon The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. Dawn Fraser I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar. Bob Richards The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.  Dave Beard The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. Peggy Fleming The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.  John Williams If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best. Jesse Owens When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more. Florence Griffith Joyner The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. Pierre de Coubertin Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics.  Marvin Olasky It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. Herb Elliott

Olympic Sports quotes and aphorisms A lo largo de los años he aprendido mucho del deporte, he vivido momentos muy importantes para mí que me han marcado y me han hecho madurar. Ona Carbonell For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. Mary Lou Retton There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. Mary Lou Retton It never gets tiring coming to Paralympic Games and crossing the line first. It is like a fairytale that just doesn't seem to end, each time I come out. Jason Smyth My dream was to win the World Championships and I did it. So I said my next dream was to win the Paralympics. So what's my next dream? It is sleeping. Daniel Martins We are all humans, we spend almost all our career together so when a teammate suffers, I suffer too. Omara Durand The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline. Sunday Adelaja It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards - it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games. Drexel Deal In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.  Will Rogers Estoy convencida de que estamos aquí para retarnos día a día a hacer grandes cosas. Porque sólo atreviéndonos a luchar para conseguir nuestros sueños podremos hacerlos realidad. Ona Carbonell Arguing is the Olympics of talking Stewart Stafford Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics.  Okay, we can swing with that.  But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned.  Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you.  That's pretty damn good.  Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.  Eddie Izzard Here's a good trick:  Get a job as a judge at the Olympics.  Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"  Jack Handey

Olympic Sports quotes and aphorisms You can also read: The History of Olympic Games Paris 2024 Olympic Games The Paralympic Games Great Sports Quotes Sports News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZD70wA3k4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSf7-LsmU3Y

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L'as-tu constaté ? - Rémi Guillet

  L’as-tu constaté ? Que le slogan que Pierre de Coubertin a réactualisé Est avant tout aux va-t-en guerre destiné ! Vaincre, cette imbécile volonté Quand l’accalmie est toujours à prôner, sachant ce qu’est l’humanité Et des armes à nouveau et à “tout prix” réclamées Pour une Europe qu’il faudrait dans l’urgence sur-armer Et qu’en adviendra-il dans quelques années quand aura disparu cette…

L'as-tu constaté ? - Rémi Guillet

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Olympic Games Quotes

Paris Olympic Games 2024 Olympic games quotes, aphorisms and ideas by great authors and world athletes by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown If you want to know more about the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games visit its website. Follow the worlds top athletes as they go for gold in France (Jul 26-Aug 11, 2024). Paralympic Games – Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 8 September. So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. Epictetus Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic. Jessica Park I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on.  In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.  Michael Ventre The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver.  Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.  Richard Nixon The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. Dawn Fraser I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar. Bob Richards The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.  Dave Beard The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. Peggy Fleming The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.  John Williams If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best. Jesse Owens When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more. Florence Griffith Joyner The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. Pierre de Coubertin Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics.  Marvin Olasky It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. Herb Elliott

Olympic Sports quotes and aphorisms A lo largo de los años he aprendido mucho del deporte, he vivido momentos muy importantes para mí que me han marcado y me han hecho madurar. Ona Carbonell For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. Mary Lou Retton There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. Mary Lou Retton It never gets tiring coming to Paralympic Games and crossing the line first. It is like a fairytale that just doesn't seem to end, each time I come out. Jason Smyth My dream was to win the World Championships and I did it. So I said my next dream was to win the Paralympics. So what's my next dream? It is sleeping. Daniel Martins We are all humans, we spend almost all our career together so when a teammate suffers, I suffer too. Omara Durand The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline. Sunday Adelaja It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards - it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games. Drexel Deal In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.  Will Rogers Estoy convencida de que estamos aquí para retarnos día a día a hacer grandes cosas. Porque sólo atreviéndonos a luchar para conseguir nuestros sueños podremos hacerlos realidad. Ona Carbonell Arguing is the Olympics of talking Stewart Stafford Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics.  Okay, we can swing with that.  But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned.  Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you.  That's pretty damn good.  Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.  Eddie Izzard Here's a good trick:  Get a job as a judge at the Olympics.  Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"  Jack Handey

Olympic Sports quotes and aphorisms You can also read: The History of Olympic Games Paris 2024 Olympic Games The Paralympic Games Great Sports Quotes Sports News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZD70wA3k4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSf7-LsmU3Y Read the full article

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A Dignidade e as Olimpíadas, da Série "Entre sem bater".

O espírito olímpico é somente um ideal.

O nível do evento tem pouco do que imaginou Coubertin.

As olimpíadas são, sem dúvida, um grande evento global.

A Copa do Mundo e as Olimpíadas são os dois maiores eventos do planeta, ambos esportivos, e que carregam todas as mazelas das nações.

#Olimpiadas #Entresembater #Coubertin #Desigualdade #Dignidade #Humanista

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Rant time

Let me present my credits first. I studied contemporary sports history, and wrote about it for my master’s thesis that I got a year and a half ago. I know it’s not a PhD so I don’t have doctoral legitimacy, but yk I’m not copy and pasting Chat GPT or a bad history blog either. In this context, I studied the Olympics, in particular. And I just saw an article on L’Équipe about the Baron Pierre de Coubertin that made me mad.

1. Im not even gonna talk about the fact that excusing the behavior of people in the past (especially so close to us) is tricky and often leads to us just remembering the good side or bad side of historical characters. Coubertin was a fucking misogynistic, racist, homophobic, pro colonization jerk. It’s well documented. Doesn’t take away from his « legacy » (don’t get me talking about the morality of the modern Olympic Games because oh boy the sex passport is right there).

2. However, questioning whether or not to celebrate that « legacy » in Paris in 2024 is important. It’s especially important since the IOC is absolutely fucking not lifting a finger to even question Coubertin’s character. He’s their creator and they love him. This is not an exaggeration. If you go to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, it’s obvious there is no questioning going on. About any facet of the Olympics, the constructed figure of their creator, or the historically curated image of the Olympics themselves.

3. Which leads me to my third point. The fucking « 1900 Paris Olympics ». A lie. A lie that has been consistently kept up by the IOC. It has been well researched at this point and any serious sports historian I know or I’ve read who has published in the last 20 years is careful about it. Because it’s not an Olympiad. It just fucking isn’t. It’s fishy af. The Universal Exhibitions always have physical events (and poetry and stuff) because it gets people involved and because by the end of the 19th century, sports are beginning to be commodified and are more and more popular terms of people who practice them and people who watch them. See the IOC of the time, headed by Coubertin, really wanted to hold OG in Paris in 1900 because there was going to be a fuckton of people. But by that point the OGs weren’t well established so they were basically told to fuck off. It’s only later that they claimed some of the events (including tug of war for some reason) as the Olympic Games. It’s a purely posterior construction. So the absurd idea that there are Olympic champions in 1900, including the first women, is fucking absurd and ludicrous. These people certainly had no idea.

All of this stupid rant to say stop talking about the 1900 Olympics like they exist, yes the IOC sucks, Coubertin is awful albeit complex (aka he’s a human). I hope the Paris 2024 Olympics won’t blindly idolize Coubertin (doubtful since he’s not managed to get in the Pantheon and the CNOSF seems dodgy about him) but won’t shy away from hard discussions either. One can hope.

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7 Curious Facts about the 1st Modern Olympic Games of 1896

7 Curious Facts about the 1st Modern Olympic Games of 1896

The first of the modern Olympic games were reborn in April, 1896 in Athens, Greece. It had been 1,500 years since they were banned in 393 AD by a Roman Emperor.  Since then, they have occurred every fours years, with a few exceptions, moving to a new host nation each time.  We take them for granted now, and look forward to a global competition where athletics supersede politics for two unique…

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Pierre de Coubertin, Jeux olympiques modernes, à Paris, philatélie, montage photo, modèle unique, Made in France, Timbres Vintage

════════════ ❄❄ Cet article sur un grand Marché ☞ https://www.ungrandmarche.fr/boutiques/p/art-numerique/pierre-de-coubertin-jeux-olympiques-modernes/1554682 ════════════ ❄❄ La boutique sur un grand Marché ☞ https://www.ungrandmarche.fr/boutique/au-royaume-du-timbre ════════════ ❄❄ The shop on Etsy ☞ https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/FrenchPhilatelicArtPierre de Coubertin fut à l'origine de l'ouverture des jeux olympiques modernes.La devise olympique « Citius, Altius, Fortius » qui veut dire « plus vite, plus haut, plus fort » est empruntée à Henri Didon.C'est un superbe bloc de 6 timbres identiques qui vous est présenté : ils ont été émis par la France en 1956.Ils n'ont pas servis et sont vintage.Vous pouvez les découvrir sur la première vue où figurent l'exemplaire mis en vente dans cet article, et un agrandissement du bloc dans son sachet protecteur : c'est ce sachet qui permettra de le coller sur la photo sans lui faire le moindre mal.Sur la vue 3, toujours le même bloc pour essayer de montrer le relief qui lui est donné grâce à son sachet.Il vous sera livré dans une enveloppe en carton rigide, et remis en recommandé contre une signature. Pour de plus amples informations, n'hésitez-pas à me contacter.Quelques détails techniques :Impression sur du papier photo semi-glacé de haute qualité : 280 g/m2.Bloc de timbres de 195660 ème anniversaire de la rénovation des jeux olympiques.Taille-douceDentelé 13 - 30 F gris et lilas - côté 2,50 € le timbre neuf.