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| | Olympic Games -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Founded mainly by writers, educators, scientists, and scholars, the Olympic Movement's understanding of culture has shifted over the years among the fine-arts conception, the idea of general moral cultivation,... |
 | | Every four years the finest athletes in the world gather in one location to compete against each other and to determine who best exemplifies the Olympic mottoCitius,Altius,Fortiusmeaning faster, higher, stronger. This gathering, known as the Olympic Games, is the most celebrated sporting festival in the world. |
 | | As a result of the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the Soviet Union not attending the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Calif., athletes from these countries were deprived of the opportunity to face one another in sports competition. |
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