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The Olympic Charter points out that the Olympic spirit is the spirit of mutual understanding, friendship, unity and fair competition. The Olympic spirit plays a very important guiding role in the Olympic movement.

Firstly, the Olympic spirit emphasizes tolerance and understanding of cultural differences. The Olympic movement is an international one, inevitably facing all kinds of cultural differences and problems arising from them. Athletes, coaches, sports officials, and spectators from various countries have different skin colors, wear different clothes, speak different languages, have different lifestyles, conduct different religious ceremonies, and express their joys and sorrows in different ways. These racial and cultural differences are often intensified by conflicts between countries in political systems, economic systems, and ideologies. In a certain sense, the quadrennial Olympic Games concentrate all the world's sports cultures in a narrow space and time frame, making the differences between different cultures particularly noticeable. Differences mean contradictions, and contradictions may lead to conflicts. The Olympic spirit emphasizes mutual understanding, friendship, and unity, aiming to create a spiritual atmosphere. In this atmosphere, people can free themselves from the prejudices brought by their own cultures. In the display of different cultures, they do not see contradictions and conflicts, but rather the diverse and colorful cultural landscape of human society, thus making cultural differences a driving force for promoting people...

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