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The Olympic motto is three Latin words

Citius, Altius, Fortius translates as faster, higher, stronger Coubertin adopted the motto in 1894 from a phrase used by a friend, the Dominican priest Henri Didon. In 2021 the IOC added a fourth word, Communiter, meaning together. The motto appears on the Olympic flag and on medals. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Citius, Altius, Fortius translates as faster, higher, stronger. The figure is taken from Olympics.com, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.