What is the Olympic spirit?

The content of the Olympic spirit given by the "Olympic Charter" is "mutual understanding, long-lasting friendship, solidarity and fair competition." The principle of participation is the first principle of the Olympic spirit.

The origin of the Olympic spirit is ancient Greek civilization. The ancient Greek admiration for human physical strength and health was the basis of Olympic sports competitions. The challenges to people's physical fitness and skills in the ancient Olympic Games reflected the competition and pioneering consciousness of the ancient Greeks.

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The Olympic spirit emphasizes tolerance and understanding of cultural differences. The Olympic Movement is an international movement. It inevitably faces various differences among cultures in the world and various problems caused by them.

Athletes, coaches, sports officials and spectators from all over the world have different skin colors, wear different clothes, speak different languages, have different lifestyles, perform different religious rituals, and use different express one's emotions through behaviors.

These racial and cultural differences are often reinforced by conflicts in political systems, economic systems and ideologies between countries. In a certain sense, the quadrennial Olympic Games concentrates all the sports culture in the world into a small space and time, so the differences between different cultures are particularly eye-catching. Differences are contradictions, and contradictions may lead to conflicts.

The Olympic spirit emphasizes mutual understanding, friendship and unity, which is to form a spiritual atmosphere. In this kind of atmosphere, people can get rid of the prejudices brought by their respective cultures. In the display of different cultures, what they see is not contradictions and conflicts, but a cultural picture of human society in full bloom and in various forms.

In this way, cultural differences can become a driving force for people to communicate with each other, rather than a closed barrier; conflicts can become a driving force for mutual learning, rather than an inducement to despise each other.

Only in this kind of atmosphere can people break through their own narrow horizons, recognize and understand things beyond their own nation with the broad mind of a world citizen, and realize that all nations have magical imaginations. and great creativity, learn to respect other nationalities, treat others and themselves with a more objective and fair attitude, humbly absorb the excellent elements of other cultures, and constantly enrich themselves, so as to achieve what the Olympic Movement advocates international exchanges are truly realized.

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