Now that you’re taking a break from perusing the crazy pictures coming out of Sochi, here’s some trivia about the Christian roots of the modern Olympics.
The official motto of the Olympics is “Citius, Altius, Fortius”, or “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” It was chosen by Pierre de Coubertin when he founded the International Olympics Committee in 1894, but Coubertin was open about the fact that he got the motto from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest.
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