CITIUS…ALTIUS…FORTIUS (Faster…Higher…Stronger)
These three words, comprising the motto of the Olympic movement, encourage the athlete in all of us to give our
best during competition, and to view this effort as its own victory.
The Olympic Games have a 3,000 year history of bringing people together to give their best in competition. The
Winter Games are the cold-weather complement to the original Olympic Summer Games. Held every four years,
the Olympic Winter Games feature winter sports, all of which are held on ice or snow.
The only Olympic Winter Games held in Canada was in 1988, in the city of Calgary, Alberta. In 2010, Canada will
proudly host the XXI Olympic Winter Games, this time in Vancouver, British Columbia. Let the Games begin!
