The New Spirit of Olympia 20, the New Spirit of Olympia

According to the Olympic Charter, the Olympic spirit is a spirit of mutual understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair play. The Olympic spirit plays a very important guiding role in the Olympic Movement.

First, the Olympic spirit emphasizes tolerance and understanding of cultural differences. The Olympic Movement is an international sport, and it inevitably faces various cultural differences in the world and the problems that arise from them. Athletes, coaches, sports** and spectators from all over the world have different skin colors, wear different clothes, speak different languages, have different lifestyles, perform different religious ceremonies, and express their joys, sorrows and sorrows in different ways.

These ethnic and cultural differences are often reinforced by conflicts between countries over political systems, economic systems and ideologies. In a sense, the quadrennial Olympic Games bring together all the world's sporting cultures in a small space and time, and the differences between the different cultures are particularly striking. Differences are contradictions, and contradictions can lead to conflicts.

The Olympic spirit, which emphasizes mutual understanding, friendship and solidarity, is to create a spiritual atmosphere. In this atmosphere, people can get rid of the prejudices brought by their respective cultures, and in the display of different cultures, what they see is not contradictions and conflicts, but the cultural picture of human society blooming and varied, so that cultural differences become the driving force for people to communicate with each other, rather than their own closed barriers; Make contradictions a motivation to learn from each other, not an incentive to despise each other. It is only in this atmosphere that people can break through their narrow horizons, recognize and understand things other than their own nation with the broad mind of a world citizen, realize that all nations have magical imagination and great creativity, learn to respect other nations, look at others and themselves with a more objective and fair attitude, humbly absorb the excellent elements of other cultures, and constantly enrich themselves, so that the international exchanges advocated by the Olympic Movement can be truly realized.

Second, the Olympic spirit emphasizes fairness and justice in competitive sports. The Olympic Movement takes competitive sports as its main activity, and the most essential characteristics of competitive sports are competition and confrontation. In direct and intense physical confrontation and competition, the athletes' physical, psychological and moral training are well exercised and cultivated, and the audience also gets sensory entertainment and subtle education.

However, the basic premise of the educational and cultural recreational functions of competitive sports is fair competition. Only on the basis of fair play can competition be meaningful, can athletes of all countries maintain and strengthen relations of unity and friendship, and can the Olympic Movement achieve its sacred goals. As the late Jesse Owens, a famous black American track and field athlete, said:

In sports, people learn not only about competitions, but also about respect for others, life ethics, how to live one's life, and how to treat one's own kind. ”

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Competition first, friendship second.