What did Pierre de Coubertin mean by neo-Olympism?

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A woman in a white pleated dress lights the Olympic torch from a large flame in a gold cauldron, with a crowd seated in the background at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. — Olympic Games An actress playing the role of an Athenian high priestess lights the Olympic flame in Athens, October 31, 2017. The torch was later carried to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, articulated the ideology of "neo-Olympism" during the era of World War I.12

He defined this concept as the pursuit of peace and the promotion of intercultural communication through the medium of international sport. By establishing this framework, Coubertin sought to move beyond the local or nationalistic sporting festivals of the past, emphasizing instead a strictly international character that utilized athletic competition to foster global understanding and harmony.12