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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."

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"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."

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"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."
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