The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
Olympics is everyone's dream.
In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.
The Olympics is a dream of mine.
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