Olympic motto
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The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger." The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. De Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who, amongst other things, was an athletics enthusiast.
The phrase is believed to have been engraved on the main entrance to the Ancient Olympic Games[citation needed].
The motto was also the name of an Olympic history journal from 1992 to 1997, when it was renamed the Journal of Olympic History.
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