International Olympic Games Committee Centennial Stamp

This stamp, issued June 1994, bears the Menorah, the emblem of the Israel Olympic Committee; the Olympic torch and the Olympic emblem of five multicoloured, interlinked cicrlces. At the top appears the Israeli delegation marching in the opening ceremony of the Munich Games 1972. Eleven of their number were murdered by terrorists. The tab has the Olympic motto: ‘Citius;’ ‘Altius;’ ‘Fortius’ (Faster; Higher; Stronger). The modern Olympic Games are a modified revival of the ancient Greek Olympian Games which came into being as a result of the efforts of French count and sportsman Pierre de Courbetin who expressed the ideal of the ancient Greeks as being the harmonious development of man physically, morally, in art and culture. The stamp with an information sheet are enclosed in a plastic protection sheet